Many of the more famous records of the Mayan civilization come from the writing and images about royals carved into monuments. "But the commoners had their own way of recording their own history ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — They were illiterate farmers, builders and servants, but Maya commoners found a way to record their own history – by burying it within their homes. A new study of the objects ...

Many of the more famous records of the Mayan civilization come from the writing and images about royals carved into monuments. "But the commoners had their own way of recording their own history ...

Second, it shows how Maya commoners related to their rulers: We assume that Maya kings and nobles controlled every aspect of peoples’ lives, but the evidence at Ceren shows the upper classes had ...

Adrian Chase already had a growing sense that Maya society wasn’t quite what it’s been traditionally portrayed as: powerful rulers reigning while powerless commoners obeyed — or perhaps ...

Nearby, amid what had been a cluster of ceremonial centers, was a jumble of stones where commoners would have ... in the language of ancient Mayan inscriptions — was the sometime ally, sometime ...

Archaeologists exploring the deep jungles of Mexico uncovered the remains of a previously unknown ancient Mayan city. A team from the Archeology Council of the National Institute of Anthropology ...

Mexico and Central America are rich in Mayan ruins. Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in ...

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