Maya writing is difficult to interpret for a number of reasons.

It is generally agreed that the Maya writing system was adapted from one or more of these earlier systems.

At the moment it is not known exactly what the sign represents a cave in the Maya writing.

The morning class for beginners in reading Maya writing started at 9 o'clock.

Since the colonial period, practically all Maya writing has used a Latin alphabet.

Maya writing persisted until well into the sixteenth century when the culture was suppressed by the Spanish invaders.

The symbols themselves are not readable Maya writing, even though inserted among otherwise normal glyphs.

And Maya writing has been largely deciphered.

Terry's daughter Quiché has grown up with archeology and can already read Maya writing.

Examples of Maya writing have been found on stone monuments and tombs dating back to the last centuries before Christ.

Previous ideas about the relationships of Olmec, Zapotec and Maya writing are giving way to new thinking.

Reading Maya writing, I realized, was high on the list of things I would never do in life, up there with flying to the moon.

The skill and knowledge of Maya writing persisted among segments of the population right up to the Spanish conquest.

The decipherment and recovery of the knowledge of Maya writing has been a long and laborious process.

David Stuart, a University of Texas master of Maya writing, stopped by and tried to be helpful.

The intriguing finds, including art masterpieces and the earliest known Maya writing, are overturning old ideas of the Preclassic period.

The unit of the Maya writing system is the glyphic cartouche, which is equivalent to the words and sentences of a modern language.

Only in recent years have scholars begun to learn how to decipher the Maya writing, the most advanced in pre-Columbian America.

She has authored approximately two hundred papers in scientific, art, and literature publications, including some eight monographs on Maya writing, history, and archaeoastronomy.

He wrote in 1940, "time, in its various manifestations, the accurate record of its principal phenomena, constitutes the majority of Maya writing."

This is a few centuries earlier than previous well-dated Maya writing and 600 years before the civilization's classic period, when a decipherable writing system became widespread.

They did not employ the Maya writing system, and there are no known pre-Spanish Conquest Huastec documents.

As such, Maya writing is similar to other ancient scripts, notably Chinese, Egyptian and the cuneiform of Mesopotamia.

The Maya writing system is one of the outstanding achievements of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas.

The site includes a Maya royal tomb and examples of Maya writing that are among the first from the Maya region.