An ancient Mayan calendar, the Dresden Codex, was able to predict eclipses for centuries, revealing surprising scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of the Dresden Codex uncovers how Maya astronomers predicted solar eclipses for centuries using simple math and ...

Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged under ...

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 ...

According to Aldana, at the end of the 19th century, the German philologist Ernst Förstemann discovered the basis of the modern interpretation of a Venus table in the 13th-century Maya manuscript ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The skies and the gods were inseparable in Maya culture. Astronomers kept careful track of events like eclipses in order to perform the renewal ceremonies to continue the world’s ...

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 ...