Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...

Buried within the Las Pinturas pyramid in San Bartolo, Guatemala, thousands of painted plaster mural fragments offer a window into ancient Maya civilization. Two of those fragments form the earliest ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the remote northeastern corner of Guatemala, archaeologists have ...

The Mayan calendar and its predictions are hot topics these days. We know that the Mayans were a culture with extremely advanced knowledge of astronomy, stonework art and construction, herbal medicine ...

An undated artists reconstruction of the ceremonial structures dating to about 200 BC to 300 BC at the San Bartolo Preclassic ancient Maya site in Guatemala where evidence was found for the earliest ...

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Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago. The murals were found in a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — University of Texas at Austin researchers discovered evidence in Guatemala for the earliest known Maya calendar. According to a UT release, the researchers found and pieced together ...

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Was the Mayan calendar ever changed or did they keep the same system through the milennia? Makes me wonder what the longest continuously used calendar system was. I think the Jewish calendar predates ...