This project, run by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has a lofty goal: record and disseminate information about all known ancient Maya inscriptions and their associative art.

"The Mayan calendar," said Dr. Spinden, "passed out of use in 1561 when the Mayan books were destroyed in the Spanish Inquisition. At that time it had functioned for more than 2000 years without ...

In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of the Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, ...

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