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 ...

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 ...

Among the few treasures that survived Spanish colonization, the Dresden Codex stands as one of humanity’s most precious scientific relics. This folded bark-paper manuscript, adorned with colorful ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

The correlation between the colonial northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars / John Justeson and David Tavárez -- Kirchhoff's correlations and the third part of the Codex Borbonicus / Edward E.

Scientists have decoded how the Maya predicted solar eclipses precisely. The discovery comes from analysis of the Dresden Codex manuscript. It reveals that the Maya used a sophisticated lunar calendar ...

A new study shows the Dresden Codex let Maya astronomers predict solar eclipses for centuries. Terror charge filed in Jan. 6 case Where Lake Mead water levels stand ...