Altar Q, a Mayan monument carved approximately 1,300 years ago in Honduras, may reveal a code that has eluded scientists ...

A new study of the Altar Q of Copan in Honduras has revolutionized the archaeological community. This piece, carved in the ...

A researcher claims 1,300-year-old Maya hand signs on Altar Q encode Long Count calendar dates, revealing a potential second ...

The popular Maya stone carving known as Altar Q might have a deeper hidden meaning that represents important dates in the ...

A new study argues that ancient Maya Altar Q, known for its depiction of rulers with unique hand gestures, might contain a ...

A linguistic anthropologist says the hand positions carved on a 1,300-year-old Maya stone altar encode calendar dates through ...

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent ...

In the ruined Mayan city of Palenque, State of Chiapas, Mexico, Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier had the thrill that all diggers hope for: he was the first to look into a ceremonial chamber ...

A page of a historic Mayan manuscript, which depicts the Mayan calendar (Credit: Getty Images) Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories. Three ...

The Maya hieroglyphs and the Maya script have been a mystery for centuries. Scholars from all over the world tried to crack the `Mayan Code' since the early 1830s. But it took many decades until ...

Construction of the altar dates back to the late 300s A.D. The four panels around the altar were painted red, black, and yellow and emblazoned with a human head. The figure was rendered with ...

The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did the disappearance of its centres of power, each one slowly reclaimed by the creeping jungle. Mighty cities were lost for centuries, ...