A new study shows the ancient Dresden Codex held calculations could forecast eclipses centuries ahead. Maya daykeepers used overlapping 223- or 358-month cycles to maintain precise lunar and solar ...
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 ...
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The Ancient Maya Used The Dresden Codex to Predict Solar Eclipses with Impressive Accuracy
Today, astronomers are able to predict a solar eclipse to the minute using sophisticated computer programming that combines Newton's laws of motion with the positions and speeds of the Earth and moon, ...
Research methodologies and new approaches to interpreting the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni -- The paper patch on page 56 of the Madrid Codex / Harvey M. Bricker -- Papal bulls, ...
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 ...
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