We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally have been solved. Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as ...

The ancient wisdom of Mayan astrology is revealed.

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 ...

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 ...

CU Linguistics, Anthropology, and CNAIS welcome Richard A. Sandoval of Metropolitan State University of Denver for a lecture exploring how Ancient Maya scribes encoded time, cosmology, and social ...

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 ...