A stela discovered in September of 2018 at the Tak'alik Ab'aj Archaeological Park in western Guatemala is providing hints about the development of the Maya writing system. The 2,000-year-old hieroglyphs are still being translated. However, initial analyses show it is an example of early Mayan writing. Tak'alik Ab'aj appears to have been a laboratory for experimenting with language as visual scenes took on linguistic elements.
According to epigrapher Nikolai Gruber of Germany’s University of Bonn, the stela appears to refer to a ruler and his titles in an early Mayan text. But since it is an early version of the known Mayan script, translating exactly what the stela states is tricky.
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