Stela 44 glyphs describe the conjuring of the three city gods by the Maya King Chak Took Ich'aak. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

(Maya's 800-plus glyphs compare to the several thousand characters ... Thompson had thought these were gods, but Proskouriakoff convincingly proved that they were kings and that the different ...

The Glyph Block Project is based on archaeological materials recovered from the ancient Maya site of El Resbalón in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. In the 1970s, a hieroglyphic stairway consisting of ...

a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps ...

The deity has the glyph for “sun” painted on his cheek ... that the figure of Akan also represents the dead maize god, whom the Maya imbibed in the form of maize beer. The maize god is ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest and he can speak directly to the gods. With the help of other high-ranking priests ...

The discovery further highlights that many rulers of this Mayan city-state adopted the name of the god K'awil ... a ...