From Our World To Theirs

Stelae

The Codices

Common Words

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The Ancient Maya developed a hieroglyphic writing system and left their inscriptions on stela, books, and monuments. The earliest examples of Mayan hieroglyphs date from about 250 A.D. Their hieroglyphs consisted of a combination of ideograms, which represented entire ideas or words, and phonetic hieroglyphs, which represented syllables.