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

A much longer sky pattern involves Earth’s 25,720-year precession, the shifting in the direction of our poles. Once in that cycle, Polaris becomes the truest, most prominent pole star. It will reach ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the ...

New research led by Tulane University and published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has uncovered surprising information about the Mayan population. Using LiDAR (Light Detection and ...

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But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it. “If we want to honor and respect how the Maya ...

The three cities were situated in a triangle just several miles from one another. Archaeologists working in Guatemala’s Petén jungle have discovered three ancient Mayan cities, the country’s Ministry ...

Archeologist objects; story goes viral. Jan. 5, 2012 — -- The textbooks will tell you that the Mayan people thrived in Central America from about 250 to 900 A.D., building magnificent temples in ...