Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

An accidental discovery in Guatemala has revealed ancient Mayan calculations etched onto the walls of a buried room. These ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

The 819-day calendar used by ancient Mayans has long stumped researchers, but anthropologists from Tulane University may have finally deciphered its secrets. Researchers long suspected the calendar ...

Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

(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 ...

CU Linguistics, Anthropology, and CNAIS welcome Richard A. Sandoval of Metropolitan State University of Denver for a lecture exploring how Ancient Maya scribes encoded time, cosmology, and social ...

The ancient Maya developed a complex religious system centered on gods, ancestors, and the passage of time. During the Classic period, Maya society was organized into independent kingdoms that shared ...