Learn more about Maya daykeepers and how they created lunar calendar tables to predict celestial events.

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

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet ...

Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...

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

The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the early to mid 15th century, according to a Feb. 24 news release from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Researchers ...

The mountain’s name means “the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to produce/manipulate water,” and surveys conducted in the 1960s of the mountain’s summit found temple platforms, mounds ...