Page 9 and Page 8 of Códice Maya de México (c. 1100) (all images courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Secretaría de Cultura-INAH-México; all ...

Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

STEP aside, Nicolaus Copernicus. New clues point to an ancient Mayan astronomer figuring out the planets revolve around the Sun some 700 years before the famous Renaissance mathematician. But among ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

Recent scientific research has unveiled the precise methods the ancient Maya civilization used to predict solar eclipses with astonishing accuracy for centuries. These findings, based on the analysis ...

A 1,000-year-old Mayan manuscript might still predict solar eclipses accurately. The Dresden Codex, one of only four ...

Introduction -- Yucatán in the Maya context. The maya codices. Conquest and survival -- The Maya directions. Introduction. East and west. Lakin and Chikin. Dze-emal and Noh-emal. North and south. The ...

When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...

Dating from 1100, the fourth known Maya codex reveals this ancient civilization’s staggering understandings of — and reverence for — time, the cosmos and the role of the human scribe. Representing the ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century, Franciscan ...