Page 9 and Page 8 of Códice Maya de México (c. 1100) (all images courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Secretaría de Cultura-INAH-México; all ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century, Franciscan ...

Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

A bark-paper document with a weird backstory and once suspected to be a forgery is the real deal, researchers say. If true, that increases the likelihood that the plaster-coated book covered with ...

Banner image: Detail from a document called the Grolier Codex. (Credit: Gerardo Gutiérrez) Josue Saénz Treviño, a renowned collector of antiquities, probably didn’t know what he was getting himself ...

Il codice Grolier dei Maya è autentico. Dopo quasi 60 anni di dubbi e polemiche, i ricercatori guidati da Stephen Houston, della Brown University di Providence, non solo sono riusciti a confermare ...

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 ...

Dating from 1100, the fourth known Maya codex reveals this ancient civilization’s staggering understandings of — and reverence for — time, the cosmos and the role of the human scribe. Representing the ...

Preface -- The Maya and their codices -- Astronomical concepts and terminology -- Maya calendrical cycles and their notations -- The correlation of Maya and western calendars -- The structure of Maya ...

La discussione intorno al Grolier Codex che ha appassionato gli storici fin dal 1960, quando venne ritrovato da dei saccheggiatori messicani all'interno di una grotta, sembra essere giunta al termine.