An upstart Maya city less than 50 years old at the time, Dos Pilas had the nerve to use Tikal’s emblem glyph, calling itself in effect “New Tikal.” In the war, Tikal was triumphant.

King of kings. The dynastic emblem glyph of the Snake kings shows up across the Maya region. CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO “I think they changed the way politics were done. I think they created ...

In 1832, Rafinesque declared in his newsletter, the Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, that the dots and bars seen in Maya glyphs (like these at left, from the Dresden Codex) represented ...

Several Maya sites now show that their royal dynasties ... l dynasty's influence and connections. Dynastic snakehead emblem glyphs at other sites also refer to these so-called Snake Kings and ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in ... Atop her turban is a "quadripartite badge." An important emblem of sacrificial ritual, the badge ...