Publications:

Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya
by Oswaldo Chincilla Mazariegos
Chincilla Mazariegos’ 2017 book, as the name suggests, focuses on the art and myth of the Maya. He follows narratives that have lasted into modern times, which originated in the Preclassic period. Many of these myths are depicted on the painted Maya vessels of the Late Classic, which the book goes into great detail on. While it does not include every myth from the Classic Period, as that would be nearly impossible to do, this volume is still the most comprehensive on the subject currently available, especially as these myths relate to the iconography.

Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture by Andrea Stone and Marc Zender
This book, while almost fifteen years old, is still the best source on Maya iconography currently out there. It highlights how the glyphs of the Maya are not just a writing system, but an artistic tradition that lasted well over a thousand years. If you are interested in how these glyphs are implemented into Maya iconography, whether it be on stelae, vases, or codices, then I highly recommend this book.

Websites:

Bars and Dots (https://www.barsanddots.com)
This website, created and maintained by Edwin Barnhart, makes the Maya calendar incredibly accessible. It has several different features; it can show you the Maya date of any given day, allows you to solve incomplete dates if you only have a portion of the Long Count or Calendar Round, and even includes settings in which you can choose which correlation you wish to use or if you want to see Maya dates in either Yucatec or K’iche’.

Learner’s Maya Glyph Guide (https://mayaglyphs.org)
This glyph database, created by Sim Lee and John Pedersen, is excellent for beginners interested in learning Maya glyphs. The site is easy and simple to use, and shows many of the known glyphs organized alphabetically. It has logograms, syllabograms, calendar glyphs, and even non-logogram words and phrases. Each entry gives information on the specific glyph, as well as a list of sources that one can explore to get a more complete understanding.

Maya Decipherment (https://mayadecipherment.com)
Maya Decipherment is an academic site operated by the Boundary End Archaeological Research Center. It focuses on the dissemination and serious discussion of ideas related to Maya hieroglyphs and iconography, encompassing archaeology, linguistics, and other pertinent fields. Posts range from the short, informal observations to more formal contributions, such as numbers in the series Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing.

Maya Hieroglyphic Database (https://www.mayadatabase.org)
The Maya Hieroglyph Database, MHD for short, is unparalleled in its collection of known hieroglyphs and readings thereof. Run by Matthew Looper and Martha Macri, it allows the user to search through the hieroglyphic database in a variety of ways. You can search particular objects, glyphs, or even words in either Maya or English. For the study of iconography, this database is important in that it allows you to see all known variants of any given glyph, allowing you to see how they change over time and location.

Maya Vase Database (https://www.mayavase.com)
This database, created by Justin Kerr, is invaluable to anyone studying Maya vases. He has taken rollout photos of hundreds of these cylindrical objects so that their entire scenes can be visible at once. While the quality of the images on the site is low and the search terms are outdated, Dumbarton Oaks now owns the Justin Kerr Photograph Collection and has been uploading higher-quality versions of the images to the Hollis Database. Justin Kerr’s database is also important in that it gives a code to each object, K0595, K1201, K1398, etc. These codes have allowed these objects to be easily referenced and searched, making the corpus of Maya vases much more accessible.