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

Astrologer Lisa Stardust shares her insights on the Mayan system and how it captures the energy you were born into Getty If you think your birth chart says a lot about you, wait until you meet your ...

I'm not an expert on calendars or timekeeping. I only know the stuff that anyone with a degree in astronomy inevitably picks up. From that I knew that Mayan astronomy and timekeeping was both advanced ...

Among the few treasures that survived Spanish colonization, the Dresden Codex stands as one of humanity’s most precious scientific relics. This folded bark-paper manuscript, adorned with colorful ...

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 ...

A new study shows the ancient Dresden Codex held calculations could forecast eclipses centuries ahead. Maya daykeepers used overlapping 223- or 358-month cycles to maintain precise lunar and solar ...

When the Sun disappeared and the skies of the ancient world darkened without warning, many civilizations throughout time have turned to myth for answers. However, in the jungles of Mesoamerica, Mayan ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

A new study revealed how the ancient Maya used lunar and solar calendars to predict eclipses with remarkable accuracy. Credits: Theilr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. For centuries, scholars ...