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 ...

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 Dresden Codex is the oldest surviving book from the period of the Maya civilisation and is believed to be the oldest surviving manuscript from the Americas. Originally thought to date from the ...

Today, astronomers are able to predict a solar eclipse to the minute using sophisticated computer programming that combines Newton's laws of motion with the positions and speeds of the Earth and moon, ...

STEP aside, Nicolaus Copernicus. New clues point to an ancient Mayan astronomer figuring out the planets revolve around the Sun some 700 years before the famous Renaissance mathematician. Only 20 ...

“The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the lunar cycle,” the authors wrote. A peer-reviewed study in Science Advances ...

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 ...