A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may ...
Researchers reveal that the Maya predicted solar eclipses for centuries using a sophisticated lunar calendar. This research ...
(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 ...
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 ...