A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet ...

The remarkable accuracy behind the Maya people’s eclipse forecasts may have emerged from an astrological calendar system that could still hold true ...

Ancient Mayan astronomers turned their eyes to the sky and recorded celestial events with a level of precision that continues to impress scientists today. A new study, published Wednesday in Science ...

For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that ...

New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

On July 11, 1999, the Yucatan Peninsula was plunged into darkness as the moon passed momentarily between the sun and the ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The Maya astrological calendar had 260 days, and it was used to divine individuals' destinies. In the Dresden Codex, there is ...

Ix Ch'ak Ch'een reigned over the city of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Historians didn't know her name before they ...

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...

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