In a classroom in south-east Mexico, eight-year-old Verónica Yuritzi Martín Puc’s hand shoots up with the answer. On her desk is a sheet of paper with a simple grid drawn on it. She has put two dried ...

The ancient Mayans are celebrated for their towering pyramids, intricate temples and sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. Their calendars have fascinated historians for generations, often inspiring ...

This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars are relevant today to millions of Maya communities in ...

Archaeologists have deciphered the name of an ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician for the first time, identifying the author of a sophisticated celestial calculation created more than 1,100 years ...

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 ...

At the core of this rediscovery lies the Dresden manuscript, one of only four Maya codices to have survived the Spanish destruction of indigenous texts in the 1500s. Folded like an accordion and ...

In short, how exactly does the Mayan calendar work, and why to people think it foretells the end of the world? For a closer look at Mayan math and their calendar system, HowStuffWorks has an excellent ...

Instructions and worksheets on the Maya number system for both beginners and advanced. This resource explains how the Maya wrote numbers under twenty, as well as numbers in the thousands and will aid ...