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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

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 ...

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, ...