An anthropologist believes he uncovered a second script on Altar Q, one of the most famous and elaborately carved Mayan monuments, and it is unusual: sign language. The anthropologist claims that the ...

Altar Q, a Mayan monument carved approximately 1,300 years ago in Honduras, may reveal a code that has eluded scientists until now. A recent study suggests that the hand signs depicted on this altar ...

Scientists in Guatemala believe they have found the earliest example of the Mayan calendar inside the remains of an ancient building. The archeologists found pictures, called glyphs, from a Mayan ...

Scholars have long focused on Maya hieroglyphs, but a new interpretation of Altar Q challenges this. Linguist Rich Sandoval suggests that the hand positions of the 16 rulers may encode important dates ...