Mayan Civilisation Tracked Venus And Even Established A Leap Year For It

Experts have been analysing the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex – an ancient Mayan document on their astronomical data – for more than 120 years and found that it contains accurate observations and even calculations of a leap year. In a new paper from UC Santa Barbara’s Gerardo Aldana, a professor of anthropology and of Chicana and Chicano studies, … Continue reading →