The hieroglyphic texts on the sides of this stela are damaged but mostly readable. Alas, this monument represents one of the better-preserved Maya carved stones. The jungle—and the vandals of ...

A series of Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many ... you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.