Maya civilization flourished in the southeastern part of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize during the period from 3000 BC to around the 16 th century BC. As clues to know the Maya civilization, there are ...

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 the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters ...

A bark-paper document with a weird backstory and once suspected to be a forgery is the real deal, researchers say. If true, that increases the likelihood that the plaster-coated book covered with ...

An image from the Grolier Codex, the oldest known manuscript in ancient America. Justin Kerr A Maya codex that has been dubbed a fake for the last 50 years has been found to be a genuine artefact, ...

Since it was reportedly unearthed in the 1960s, the 13th century Grolier Codex – one of the rarest books in the world – has been regarded with scepticism. Some people have questioned the authenticity ...

Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in ...

Tzolkin calendar, Maya codex glyphs of the twenty day names. With sequence numbers and with individual names of the 20 days in Yucatec Maya language. Part of the 260 day Mesoamerican or Maya calendar.