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Mayan Astronomy Records Found

Scientists find ancient Mayan astronomy records, with hint the world won't truly end this year

Murals offer glimpse of Mayan astronomy

Painted tables may be ancient equivalent of office whiteboards.

Scientists find ancient Mayan astronomy records, with hint the world won't truly end this year

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.

Boston University-led expedition reveals oldest Mayan calendar

In the rainforest-covered ruins of a Mayan city dating back more than 1,100 years, a Boston University-led excavation has turned up the oldest evidence of that civilization’s mastery of astronomy -- a precise lunar calendar scrawled on what appears to be an ancient blackboard. The calendar, consisting of delicately-painted symbols and columns of numbers, was one of a number of texts found in a ...

Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.