This video follows a grim chain of encounters and upheavals in the Yucatan, from early shipwrecked survivors to syncretic faith and the 1562 Mani purge that destroyed priceless Maya books. Yet out of ...

It is key to understanding the Mesoamerican civilization's interpretation of the cosmos. The oldest book in the Americas emphasizes the sophisticated calendrical content and the way the Maya ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

The world of history is a fascinating universe, capable of making us travel to the past and giving us more details about glorious eras. In this sense, books help us to decipher history. Among literary ...

The Maya civilization, which existed in Central America from before Christ to the 16th century, had highly developed mathematics and astronomy, and is known to have predicted solar and lunar eclipses.

When Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer sifted through European archives documenting the Conquest of the Americas, he kept noticing what was missing from the official record. Those who seek ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board. The ...

A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it's really meant to work. Indigenous ...

A new study shows the Dresden Codex let Maya astronomers predict solar eclipses for centuries. Terror charge filed in Jan. 6 case Where Lake Mead water levels stand ...