Scientific News The Mayan Calendar, A Marvel Of Ancient Science

Mayan calendar predicts solar flares

Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient calendar system predict solar flares? This fascinating theory will be delved into, ... Read More

What Scientists Just Uncovered in the Mayan Calendar Is Far More Advanced Than All Modern Calculations

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet reading room in Dresden, Germany. Known as the Dresden Codex, it’s one of the ... Read More

This Maya Calendar Has Been Perfectly Predicting Eclipses For 900 Years

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 ... Read More

Mayan astronomers built a 700-year-long eclipse calendar centuries before telescopes

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 ... Read More

Anthropologist claims hand positions on 1,300-year-old Maya altar have a deeper meaning

As experts had also previously noted, the hieroglyphs indicate that the Copán dynasty started and ended roughly at the beginning and the end of the ninth bak'tun — yet another reference to the Long ... Read More

Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ... Read More