The ancient Maya civilization is often erroneously described as an empire, when in reality it was made up of numerous disjointed polities, united by a shared culture but divided by allegiances to ...

The first obvious snake glyphs seem to appear in Dzibanché ... seems to have had a special status in the Snake kingdom. Its princes went to Calakmul for education, and three of them wedded ...

"I was very excited when I saw that snake head on the glyph," Estrada-Belli told NBC ... which is the Kaanul kingdom." Alex Tokovinine, a Harvard specialist in Maya writing who deciphered the ...