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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—Researchers from the Idiap Research Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities are working with ...

Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might expect, the ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. You think you have interesting work, and indeed you may, but chances are it doesn't ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes, who ...

During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a ...

Like most people, I enjoy burritos. Unlike most people, I also enjoy learning about ancient hieroglyphic writing systems, because I’m Indiana—er—Language Jones. A while back, I bought Andrea Stone & ...

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA (JULY 22, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-DIRECTOR OF LA CORONA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, MARCELO CANUTO, SAYING: “Excavations have discovered two ...

The site of Copán in Honduras contained the most famous Maya stone carving known as Altar Q. It was deemed that they might have used hand signs to represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar.