A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. When you ...

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The Maya used "sign language" on an altar around 1,300 years ago, and these signs may represent important dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. "This is the oldest text where, to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study claims that Altar Q, made by the Maya in the eighth century A.D., may convey a deeper ...

Scholars have long focused on Maya hieroglyphs, but a new interpretation of Altar Q challenges this. Linguist Rich Sandoval suggests that the hand positions of the 16 rulers may encode important dates ...