"The present book is the result of an effort to exchange information about the state of the art in Mesoamerican codex studies between researchers from different disciplines. The important Mexican ...

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Preface -- The Maya and their codices -- Astronomical concepts and terminology -- Maya calendrical cycles and their notations -- The correlation of Maya and western calendars -- The structure of Maya ...

The Maya were, at their height, one of the world’s great civilisations. In the “classic” period, from AD 250–900, Maya cities with monumental architecture and huge populations spread across a large ...

Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such ...

A bark-paper document with a weird backstory and once suspected to be a forgery is the real deal, researchers say. If true, that increases the likelihood that the plaster-coated book covered with ...

This project, run by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has a lofty goal: record and disseminate information about all known ancient Maya inscriptions and their associative art. On ...