As the Mayan civilization was in decline, a diligent scribe was working on the oldest book created in the Americas: the Grolier Codex. The book, which contains personified images of the sun, death, ...

Deep in a vault in Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropología sits a manuscript that has long been shrouded in controversy. Said to have been found in a Mexican cave in a box along with a turquoise ...

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 ...

The Grolier Codex helped ancient Mayans track astronomical phenomena. As the Mayan civilization was in decline, a diligent scribe was working on the oldest book created in the Americas: the Grolier ...