The Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

On a square black velvet cloth, Lesly Ellis carefully shapes grains of rice in honor of the Mayan calendar symbol for this year's Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead. The symbol changes ...

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

There are hundreds of caves in Belize that served as portals to what the Maya called Xibalba—home to ancient death gods, rituals, and extraordinary relics left behind. Accessible only by kayak or ...

On July 11, 1999, the Yucatan Peninsula was plunged into darkness as the moon passed momentarily between the sun and the ...

New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet reading room in Dresden, Germany. Known as the Dresden Codex, it’s one of the ...

Diwali, the festival of lights, will illuminate India on October 20, 2025. This five-day celebration begins with Dhanteras and culminates in Bhai Dooj, honoring various deities for prosperity and well ...

Renowned for their precision, vision, and place in time, Mesoamerican calendars have long been held up as an example of the early advancement of the civilizations of the indigenous people of North, ...

The Mayan civilization was an advanced Mesoamerica civilization which developed art, agriculture, written language as well as mathematical and astronomical systems. People know the Maya mainly from ...

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