This undated photo released by Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) shows an ancient Maya pictographic text that has been judged authentic by scholars in Mexico City. The INAH ...

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, becoming only the second known document to do so. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world to ...

When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...

An ancient Mayan document long thought to be a forgery was recently found to be genuine. The text, known as the Grolier Codex, was analyzed by researchers from Yale, Brown, and the University of ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

Cobá was a major urban center in the Maya world and was occupied from around 350 B.C. to the 14th century. It had a core of elite houses built around four lakes, along with thousands of residential ...

MEXICO CITY – Fifty-four years after it was sold by looters, an ancient Maya pictographic text was judged authentic by scholars Thursday. Mexico's National Institute of History and Anthropology said ...