Archaeologists have applauded recent excavations at an ancient settlement in southeastern Mexico that have yielded an array of artifacts from the Olmec civilization. However, controversy has flared ...
It apparently began around 200 A.D., when a Maya scribe decided that the symbols he was using were just not good enough. When he drew a jaguar, for example, who could be sure that he really meant ...
A SLAB inscribed with the oldest writing yet discovered in the New World nearly wound up as landfill in a Mexican road. The archaeologists that salvaged it say the writing dates back nearly 3000 years ...
A stone block discovered in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico, contains the oldest writing in the New World, says an international team of archaeologists, including Stephen D. Houston of Brown ...
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