Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Maya Calendar, first devised by the Olmecs and perfected by the ancient Maya civilization, is a complicated timekeeping system made up of three ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A pair of anthropologists at Tulane University has solved the mystery of the Mayan 819-day count, a type of ancient Mesoamerican calendar system. In their paper published in the journal Ancient ...

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 ...

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 hand displays a rectangular relief plaque featuring a detailed central sun deity face surrounded by ancient Mesoamerican ...

Today, astronomers are able to predict a solar eclipse to the minute using sophisticated computer programming that combines Newton’s laws of motion with the positions and speeds of the Earth and moon, ...