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 ...

Under an earthen mound deep in the Guatemalan rainforest, archaeologists have discovered what they say is the earliest evidence to date of the sophisticated astronomy and time-keeping rituals of ...

Today, let's talk about the mysterious Mayan civilization. The Mayan civilization is truly elusive, especially their ...

Archeologists discovered a small room in Mayan ruins used to keep track of astronomical records.

It’s the story Aldana, dean of the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, tells in “ Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan ...

(AP) NEW YORK - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reinterpretation of Dresden Codex produces clues of unexpectedly advanced Mayan astronomy STEP aside, Nicolaus Copernicus. New clues point to an ancient Mayan astronomer figuring out the planets ...

As the Mayan civilization was in decline, a diligent scribe was working on the oldest book created in the Americas: the Grolier Codex.