Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might ...

that the dots and bars seen in Maya glyphs (like these at left, from the Dresden Codex) represented simple numbers—a dot equaled one and a bar five. Later findings proved him right and also ...

Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero ... Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number ...