I’m a bit of a nut about ancient writing (probably as an outgrowth of my interest in codes and cryptography) and one of my interests have always been with the Maya (after all, astronomers and writers, okay, the human sacrifice thing was not so good, but still…). Scientific American has just published this link about recent work that pushes the dates of the Mayan writing systems back to about 200 to 300 B.C. Interesting stuff.

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: New Find Pushes Back Date of Mayan Writing

[tags]Heiroglyphics,Maya[/tags]