The Maya civilization, which existed in Central America from before Christ to the 16th century, had highly developed mathematics and astronomy, and is known to have predicted solar and lunar eclipses.

Astronomical events such as eclipses were central to Maya culture, reflected in the care the Maya took to keep accurate calendars to aid in celestial predictions. Among the few surviving Maya texts is ...

I'm not an expert on calendars or timekeeping. I only know the stuff that anyone with a degree in astronomy inevitably picks up. From that I knew that Mayan astronomy and timekeeping was both advanced ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

Scientists have decoded how the Maya predicted solar eclipses precisely. The discovery comes from analysis of the Dresden Codex manuscript. It reveals that the Maya used a sophisticated lunar calendar ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

A new study shows the ancient Dresden Codex held calculations could forecast eclipses centuries ahead. Maya daykeepers used overlapping 223- or 358-month cycles to maintain precise lunar and solar ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how Maya astronomers developed and refined a system to predict solar eclipses with remarkable precision, overturning a century of misinterpretations about the Dresden ...

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 ...