Was This Maya Manuscript Used To Plan The Next Party
Now, one researcher from UC Santa Barbara believes the Mayans could have been like them in other ways, using the stars to try and plan out future dates for holidays. Gerardo Aldana, an anthropologist and professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, has studied the Venus table from the famous Dresden Codex, one of the few remaining Maya manuscripts left in the world. (Few are left because invading peoples made great efforts to destroy Maya works, and then stole others and brought them back to Europe for kings and queens....