The sacred Maya calendar is called Tzolk’in in Yucatec Mayan and Chol Q’ij in K’iche’. This calendar combines 20 named days with 13 numbers that, when multiplied, amount to 260 days.

Mayan symbols are a rich source of material culture for the Central American civilization and are among the most important archeological finds that have helped piece together their …

One of the Maya’s greatest achievements is in this area: they invented the zero. The Maya developed positional numeration, which had not even been discovered by the Romans. Their …

The discovery of an ancient Mayan city in the Yucatán rain forest led to new informa-tion and understanding of the Maya. Use your local library and the Internet to research the impact of …

GLYPHS Alexandre Tokovinine 2017 INTRODUCTION This catalog of Ancient Maya writing characters is intended as an aid for beginners .

Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing allows us to begin to understand the Classic Maya concept of the nature of human existence, their system of morality, and their religious practice …

The Mayan Numbers are the notation of numbers based on the positional numeral system used by the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. This system was used for calendar …