Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Maya cosmogram at Aguada Fenix, which serves as a 3,000-year-old map of the universe ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

Recent scientific research has unveiled the precise methods the ancient Maya civilization used to predict solar eclipses with astonishing accuracy for centuries. These findings, based on the analysis ...

A new study shows the ancient Dresden Codex held calculations could forecast eclipses centuries ahead. Maya daykeepers used overlapping 223- or 358-month cycles to maintain precise lunar and solar ...

The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations, known for its significant achievements in astronomy and mathematics. This includes accurate calendars ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 ...

Stream these free science programs and more this February through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Anna Torres Celebrate the Mayan New Year with a Mayan astronomy webinar in ...

Gerardo Aldana would like to introduce you to K’uk’ul Ek’ Tuyilaj. Never heard of her? You have plenty of company. A Mayan woman, she discovered how to project, over huge time spans, the appearance of ...