A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium.

One of the world's greatest losses of information occurred when Spanish priests in the 16th century ordered Maya codices to be burned. Fearful of religious differences, these priests (under the ...

Since its discovery in 1860, the Madrid Codex, named for the city where it was found after hundreds of years of obscurity and where it rests today, has illuminated many mysteries of ancient Mayan ...

Browse online Maya dictionaries, download PDF files of famous Maya codices, and more. On this Web site from the University of Texas, Austin, read research papers on ancient Maya writing ...