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 ...

The ancient Maya developed one of the most sophisticated systems of timekeeping in the ancient world. Unlike many other civilizations, they recorded dates with remarkable precision, allowing modern ...

As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Maya calendar have been racing to convince people that the Maya didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year. Subscribe to read this story ...

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire. Credit: Isabel ...

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 ...

As the Mayan civilization was in decline, a diligent scribe was working on the oldest book created in the Americas: the Grolier Codex. The book, which contains personified images of the sun, death, ...

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 ...