No royal court in the classic Mayan period, especially from about A.D. 600 to 900, seems to have been without scribes of high rank. In paintings and sculptures, they are seen seated cross-legged ...

NEW YORK – Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate ...

For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E. into the seventh century, scribes ...

Royal scribes used walls for astronomical records and the society's calendar 1,200 years ago Archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University excavates a house in the ruins of a Mayan city in ...

Archeologists working at Mayan ruins in Guatemala discovered a six-foot square room whose walls are covered with 1,200-year-old astronomical records of Mayan scribes, who used these observations ...

NEW YORK — Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate ...

The room, a bit bigger than 6-feet square, is part of a large complex of Mayan ruins in the rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. The walls also contain portraits of a seated king and ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s ...

The room, a bit bigger than 6-feet square, is part of a large complex of Mayan ruins in the rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. The walls also contain portraits of a seated king and ...