Mayan Archaeoastronomy Topics

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• - Overview of the evidence for Mayan astronomy.
  
• - Dating the eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, with solution of the correlation problem. Technical.
  
• - Pictorial account of the expedition to photograph the southernmost rise of Venus (which occurs once every eight years) from the ancient Maya city in western Yucatan.
  
• - The BBC report on a theory that Mayan astronomy may have been inspired by fluctations in the brightness of the sun.
  
• - A review of prehispanic astronomic knowledge: numeration, calendars, dates, stelae, codices and architecture. Extensive bibliography
  
• - An explanation of the long count, the tzolkin-haab and the relation between the Maya Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar.
  
• - An introduction to the Mayan Calendar.
  
• - Contains study of Maya mathematics, geographical orientation, writing, calendar, and Maya-related links.