More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where street lamps, electronic ads and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

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 ...

K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E.

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet reading room in Dresden, Germany. Known as the Dresden Codex, it’s one of the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection was given to William H. Crocker by Floyd G. Lounsbury and donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Crocker in 1998. This ...

"Two hundred fifty copies printed for private distribution." "The present reproduction is an absolutely exact photographic facsimile of the original ... The format of the original has been followed ...