The codex—a ten page document consisting of Mayan deity/ritual paintings and a calendar that charts the movement of Venus—dates back to the first half of the 13th century, making it the oldest ...

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An ancient Maya document, long dismissed as a fake, is not only the real thing, but it’s the oldest-known book in the Americas. Researchers believe the Grolier codex dates back to the early 13th ...

13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine Brown University's Stephen Houston and a team of leading researchers in anthropology and Maya archeology methodically verify ...

A group of prominent Maya scholars have now concluded that the codex, currently in storage in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology, is indeed genuine and have published their argument ...

On April 21, 1971, a little-known Maya manuscript — a calendar for calculating the cycles of Venus — went on view at the Grolier Club in Manhattan as part of an exhibition on Maya writing. Each page ...

Perhaps you’re not familiar with the Grolier Codex.It’s the surviving pages of a 20-page book, made of stucco-coated bark paper folded into an accordion shape.

The authenticity of the Grolier Codex has been disputed for the last four decades. A group of researchers who revisited the rare Maya text now argue that there's no way it could be a forgery. If ...

Unlike three other Maya Codex finds, it had writing on only one side of each of its 10 pages. Plus, some of the pages appear to have been cut relatively recently.

The book, in other words, was undeniably a fourth Maya codex. Other analyses suggested that the manuscript dated back to the 11th or 12th centuries, a timeline that made it the oldest known American ...

Page 5 of Códice Maya de México (c. 1100). The four Mayan Codices, including the Codex on display at the Getty, are the only known remaining books that survived Spanish Franciscan Bishop Diego ...