Science: Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Mesoamerican: Epigraphy: Maya

An introduction and detailed, illustrated bibliography with links to related sites.

"None of those who are born in the light, begotten in the light will be yours." Several books by the late Linda Schele contribute to the study of MesoAmerica and the ancient system used to write glyphs and codices.

Maya glossary. Vocabulary, Gods, names, calendaric and astronomic explanations, mythologies. Francesco Raffaele presents downloadable glossary in Italian.

Explanation of the Maya Calendar and software for Maya Calendar date conversion.

An experiment in networked research on Classic Mayan epigraphy; a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994); archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

Gregorian to Mayan date converter, write your name in Mayan, Maya glyphs, games, and mythology

The glyphs and personal notes about the three panels from the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque: East, Central and West.

Article describing discoveries in the interpretation of the Mayan script, and understanding of their historical records.

Course syllabus and bibliography from the University of Central Florida.

Occasional publication of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, at the University of California, Davis: includes research notes in PDF Adobe Acrobat format.

Software for converting between dates in the Maya Calendar (long count, tzolkin haab) and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Allows specificaton of correlation number and year-bearer system.