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Early Belize History: Glyphs and Timeline

Article describing discoveries in the interpretation of the Mayan script, and understanding of their historical records.

Mayan Calendrics Software

Software for converting between dates in the Maya Calendar (long count, tzolkin haab) and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Allows specification of correlation number and year-bearer system.

Mayan Math

An exposition of Mayan calendar glyphs. Compares the monthly and yearly cycles with the current Gregorian calendar. Also, includes myths behind this system.

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project

An experiment in networked research on Classic Mayan epigraphy; a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994); archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

Maya Calendar

Explanation of the Maya Calendar and software for Maya Calendar date conversion.