Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

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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 ...

Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the world.

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of ...

Among the inscriptions excavated from the ruins of the ancient Maya civilization, there are those with a period of 819 days, and the mystery of why the number 819 has bothered many scholars so far ...

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally have been solved.. Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system ...

Civilisation was thinking on much longer timescales than researchers had realised, new study suggests ...