An ancient Mayan document long thought to be a forgery was recently found to be genuine. The text, known as the Grolier Codex, was analyzed by researchers from Yale, Brown, and the University of ...

An ancient Maya document, long dismissed as a fake, is not only the real thing, but it’s the oldest-known book in the Americas. Researchers believe the Grolier codex dates back to the early 13th ...

Dating from 1100, the fourth known Maya codex reveals this ancient civilization ... “idols” — across a region that includes modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.

Kislak Collection for the archaeology of the early Americas, describes the Codex, which shows “the de Leon family presiding over a large region of ... such as Maya Blue and cochineal red ...

The authenticity of a fourth book called the Grolier Codex, now in Mexico City, is still disputed. The codices were probably written no earlier than the twelfth century A.D., but the Maya may have ...

Archaeologists have long looked to Venus to understand Maya calendars and tradition. But now, a fresh look at an ancient text called the Dresden Codex suggests that our understanding of how the ...

In order to find the ancient settlement, Gadoury examined 22 Mayan constellations from the ancient Madrid Codex texts ... buildings once stood in the third region. Gaboury’s discovery went ...

The codex also details beekeeping methods ... the many artifacts found in this region illustrate Maya commoners’ daily lives. Researchers have been searching the region ahead of continued ...

The calendar was created several centuries before the famous bark-paper Maya calendar known as the Dresden Codex, which was made ... in Guatemala’s Peten region that was built between the ...

Pages depicting the Venus table from the Dresden Codex. One of the few Mayan surviving codices, the Dresden Codex, has fascinated historians for centuries. It’s an ancient encyclopaedia of ...

Maya scribes kept accounts of the astronomical observations in codices, hieroglyphic folding books made from fig bark paper. The Dresden Codex, one of the four remaining ancient Maya texts ...