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 ...

The Dresden Codex is the oldest surviving book from the period of the Maya civilisation and is believed to be the oldest surviving manuscript from the Americas. Originally thought to date from the ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While the Mayan people of Central America are known colloquially for ...

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 ...

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 ...