Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

Calendars, smart phones, your mother: each reminds you what you have to do. For eons, calendars have helped people predict the seasons, remember events, and track time. On May 10, 2012, history’s ...

For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex — an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data — has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

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Some volumes by Ian Graham and Eric Von Euw. Some volumes by Peter Mathews. Some volumes distributed by Harvard University Press. Vol. 8, pt. 1: Maps folded and inserted in pockets. V. 1. Introduction ...

As the date that some claim marks the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar approaches on Friday, December 21, 2012, Drexel University’s Dr. Judith Storniolo, a teaching professor of anthropology ...

ALL who are interested in American archæology (and especially those who do not read German) must feel greatly indebted to Dr. Brinton for his “Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics,” for in this little book ...

Balaj Chan K'awiil was born to privilege and given a kingdom, but he sold out to the enemy, defeated his former benefactors in battle and celebrated the victory by sacrificing the brother who mentored ...