Art Institute of Chicago
Hieroglyphic Panel
Late Classic Maya
- Date
- 650–800
- Medium
- Limestone
- Culture
- Guatemala
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The Maya developed hieroglyphic writing to record the names, births, marriages, alliances, victories and coronations, and deaths of their rulers. Mythological events and religious happenings were also carefully chronicled. Today scholars are deciphering this script and linking the translated information to additional archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct ancient Maya history, belief, and culture. This fragment from a hieroglyphic panel contains calendrical information that was part of a longer text.
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