There is also a selection of Inscriptions with transliterations and translations, illustrating the use of glyphs on real-world Maya objects. This site is intended as a resource for those learning Maya …

Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been …

Facts and myths about the Maya writing system. How to read and write using Maya hieroglyphs, as well as activities for children and resources to download. KS2 Maya teaching resource.

There were also about 100 glyphs representing place names and the names of gods. About 300 glyphs were commonly used. Examples of the script have been found carved in stone and …

Feb 12, 2014 · The Maya hieroglyphic writing system was a sophisticated combination of pictographs directly representing objects and ideograms (glyphs) expressing more abstract …

Most scholars accepted the theory that the Maya writing system was entirely logographic —that is, that each glyph, or sign, represented an entire word. In addition, it was widely believed that the …

Maya hieroglyphs were first identified as a writing system during the nineteenth century, when the bar-and-dot numerical system was deciphered. In the 1950s it was discovered that the script …