Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. And one key to the glyphs from that time was saved: a manuscript that Landa wrote in 1566 about his contact with the Maya. It recorded what he ...

In 1832, Rafinesque declared in his newsletter, the Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, that the dots and bars seen in Maya glyphs (like these at left, from the Dresden Codex) represented ...

King of kings. The dynastic emblem glyph of the Snake kings shows up across the Maya region. CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO “I think they changed the way politics were done. I think they created ...

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes ... Each of 2,200 blocks that form the risers of more than 70 steps bears carved glyphs that record the history of the 16-ruler ...

Several Maya sites now show that their royal dynasties ... Dynastic snakehead emblem glyphs at other sites also refer to these so-called Snake Kings and Queens. The Kaanu'l dynasty is thought ...