How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

“Blood was the mortar of ancient Maya ritual life,” wrote groundbreaking epigrapher Lin-da Schele and art historian Mary ... began decoding the Maya calendar from glyphs on stelae at sites ...

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 ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also ... which allowed them to create very detailed and accurate calendars. They used these calendars for farming – perhaps ...

a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

Living off a bounty of corn, they devised an elaborate calendar ... the life of the ancient Maya kings and their retinues. Now, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C ...