Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An anthropologist believes he uncovered a second script on Altar Q, one of the most famous and elaborately carved Mayan monuments, ...

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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 ...

Altar Q, a Mayan monument carved approximately 1,300 years ago in Honduras, may reveal a code that has eluded scientists until now. A recent study suggests that the hand signs depicted on this altar ...