Learn more about Maya daykeepers and how they created lunar calendar tables to predict celestial events.

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

A new study revealed how the ancient Maya used lunar and solar calendars to predict eclipses with remarkable accuracy.

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Egyptian astronomers in 3000 BCE designed a solar calendar of 365 days to track the annual flooding of the Nile. Divided into ...

The mountain’s name means “the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to produce/manipulate water,” and surveys conducted in the 1960s of the mountain’s summit found temple platforms, mounds ...

Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...

The carvings were found on a mountaintop in the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico. Getty Images/iStock Photo On the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico, the peak of Cerro Patlachique towers ...

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...