When Martha Macri was growing up in Vinita, Okla., her father liked to teach her words in Cherokee. On Sundays they would visit a full-blood uncle who had a copy of the famous syllabary invented by ...

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 ...

NOVA chronicles the 200-year worldwide quest by linguists, mathematicians, artists, architects, archeologists, and others to decipher the Maya hieroglyphs. describes where the Maya region is located.

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