1,000-year-old Maya manuscript could track solar eclipses revealing ancient astronomical secrets

A 1,000-year-old Mayan manuscript might still predict solar eclipses accurately. The Dresden Codex, one of only four ...
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Mayan astronomers built a 700-year-long eclipse calendar centuries before telescopes

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 ...
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What Scientists Just Uncovered in the Mayan Calendar Is Far More Advanced Than All Modern Calculations

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 ...
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Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton

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.