A sprawling Maya metropolis, hidden for centuries beneath dense tropical canopy, is coming into focus as archaeologists ...

NOVA chronicles the 200-year worldwide quest by linguists, mathematicians, artists, architects, archeologists, and others to decipher the Maya hieroglyphs. describes where the Maya region is located.

describes where the Maya region is located. recounts the first documented discovery by an expedition from Spain, in 1785, of tablets with hieroglyphs. notes that the complexity of the hieroglyphs ...