The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.
On July 11, 1999, the Yucatan Peninsula was plunged into darkness as the moon passed momentarily between the sun and the ...
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Mayan astronomers built a 700-year-long eclipse calendar centuries before telescopes
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves directly between the Earth and the Sun, obscuring the Sun's light for a period of ...
New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.
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