CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

Ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math and astronomy, a researcher suggests. This study blends the study of Mayan hieroglyphics (epigraphy), archaeology and astronomy to ...

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 ...

Students see how scientists began to unravel the meaning of Maya glyphs and then determine their own birth date using the Maya Long Count calendar system. The Maya civilization began about 2600 BC and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths ...

Nov. 16, 2006 — -- The remarkable accomplishments of the Maya were developed independently from those that arose in regions outside the Western Hemisphere. Their culture, as exemplified in the ...

If some interpretations of the Mayan calendar are correct, we’ll all be gone next year. While every other doomsday prediction has (obviously) come and gone, some people think that the Maya knew ...

For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex — an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data — has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

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 ...

Students see how scientists began to unravel the meaning of Maya glyphs and then determine their own birth date using the Maya Long Count calendar system. The Maya civilization began about 2600 BC and ...