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 ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

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 ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

The Maya civilization, which existed in Central America from before Christ to the 16th century, had highly developed mathematics and astronomy, and is known to have predicted solar and lunar eclipses.

Scientists have decoded how the Maya predicted solar eclipses precisely. The discovery comes from analysis of the Dresden Codex manuscript. It reveals that the Maya used a sophisticated lunar calendar ...

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