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

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

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

A new study revealed how the ancient Maya used lunar and solar calendars to predict eclipses with remarkable accuracy.

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 ...

The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the lunar cycle,” the authors wrote.

For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that ...

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

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: In December 2025 the "El Tehuanito" suburban train will ...

For centuries, scholars have pondered how the ancient Maya were able to predict eclipses with such remarkable accuracy. Now, a new study led by John Justeson has finally decoded those eclipse secrets, ...

The world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon, recently unveiled at the Anu–Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, carries a direct connection to India through its namesake, David ...