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The Ancient Maya Used The Dresden Codex to Predict Solar Eclipses with Impressive Accuracy
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.
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...
Following a spate of deadly wildfires earlier this year, many of us find ourselves asking how we can fight such a powerful ...
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