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 ...

A peer-reviewed study in Science Advances revisited the Eclipse Table of the Dresden Codex and found that the Maya used it as a paper calculator for solar eclipses rather than as a symbolic list of ...

STEP aside, Nicolaus Copernicus. New clues point to an ancient Mayan astronomer figuring out the planets revolve around the Sun some 700 years before the famous Renaissance mathematician. But among ...

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 ...

“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

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 ...

Astronomical events such as eclipses were central to Maya culture, reflected in the care the Maya took to keep accurate calendars to aid in celestial predictions. Among the few surviving Maya texts is ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how Maya astronomers developed and refined a system to predict solar eclipses with remarkable precision, overturning a century of misinterpretations about the Dresden ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where street lamps, electronic ads and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...