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 ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

It seems almost unbelievable. A 1,000-year-old Mayan manuscript might still predict solar eclipses accurately. The Dresden Codex, one of only four surviving Maya books, holds a sophisticated system ...

Recent scientific research has unveiled the precise methods the ancient Maya civilization used to predict solar eclipses with astonishing accuracy for centuries. These findings, based on the analysis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of the Dresden Codex uncovers how Maya astronomers predicted solar eclipses for centuries using simple math and ...