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 ...

and reading them has been foundational to our knowledge of Maya civilization. For these reasons, deciphering the story of Resbalón’s stairway is of critical importance. The task of putting these ...

(Maya's 800-plus glyphs compare to the several thousand characters ... have begun to grasp the lost civilization's traditions by reading the stories carved on walls and painted on pottery.

Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The second is an apparent reference at the ...