Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

This undated photo released by Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) shows an ancient Maya pictographic text that has been judged authentic by scholars in Mexico City. The INAH ...

Page 9 and Page 8 of Códice Maya de México (c. 1100) (all images courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Secretaría de Cultura-INAH-México; all ...

When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...

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 ...

Dating from 1100, the fourth known Maya codex reveals this ancient civilization’s staggering understandings of — and reverence for — time, the cosmos and the role of the human scribe. Representing the ...

Introduction -- Yucatán in the Maya context. The maya codices. Conquest and survival -- The Maya directions. Introduction. East and west. Lakin and Chikin. Dze-emal and Noh-emal. North and south. The ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century, Franciscan ...

Photographs and papers relating to alleged Mayan codices. The correspondence between Matthew Williams Stirling and Eric Thompson discusses the authenticity of a possible codex, also in the collection, ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Maya, best known these days for the doomsday they never foretold, may have accurately predicted astronomical phenomena centuries ahead of time, scientists find. A new book, ...