Both Mayan and Egyptian served only one language, while cuneiform, invented by ancient Sumerians around 3500 B.C., was adopted by many different Mesopotamian peoples who spoke Semitic and Indo ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, pyramids and a unique canal system that could shed further light on the ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

On it, written in cuneiform, the script language of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, ... Writing came to China as early as around 1200 B.C. and to the Maya in Mesoamerica long before A.D. 500.

It’s a blast from the long-ago past. Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of ...

Multiple ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico are inaccessible due to cartel violence in a blow to tourism in the country’s southern state. Mexico’s government admitted that tourists can no longer ...

The reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, and while the world didn’t end in 2012, Mayan doomsday is sometime this week or next.

Houston, a Maya expert, was joined by Oxford Egyptologist John Baines and Johns Hopkins' Jerrold Cooper, ... Egyptian, cuneiform and Mayan must have accrued sufficient negative prestige and stigma to ...

Only three books remain, and a fourth has just 10 pages remaining, he says. The last Mayan city fell to the Spanish in 1697. But many hieroglyphs chiselled into buildings and stone monuments ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, pyramids and a unique canal system that could shed further light on the ...