The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

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 ...

(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 ...

K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E.

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 ...

The international academic journal Science featured on its June 3rd cover an image of an ancient structure under a star-filled night sky. This structure is a 10th-century Mayan building at Chichen ...

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 ...

… or, B’ak’tun The Future. There’s some buzz going around the web right now because some Mayan archaeologists found wall writings in the Xultun ruins in Guatemala dealing with the Mayan calendar. The ...

Bilingual website devoted to the Mayan calendar, which includes middle-school lesson plans on Mayan astronomy and mathematics. The Maya themselves weigh in on the end-of-the world scares associated ...

"To Alfred Marston Tozzer, his students and colleagues dedicate this volume, in recognition of his services to Middle American research and in appreciation of their debit to him as teacher, counselor, ...