Note: This time line is not meant to be comprehensive. For a more detailed history on the decipherment, see Michael Coe's Breaking the Maya Code (Thames & Hudson, 1999), on which NOVA's film was ...

Why did Maya writing remain undecipherable for so long and how was it finally cracked? Find out how this long enigmatic script was finally deciphered and how centuries of recorded Maya history were ...

This project, run by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has a lofty goal: record and disseminate information about all known ancient Maya inscriptions and their associative art. On ...

A previously unknown ancient mask from southern Mexico contains an inscription that shows the language used there prior to the Maya civilization remains undecipherable, according to a new study by ...

History of decipherment -- The basics -- Introduction to the calendars : numbers, initial series, and long count -- The calendar round -- The supplementary and other series -- Period endings and ...