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The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table. Credit: Image courtesy of University of California – Santa Barbara

Ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math, astronomy. For >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 observations, especially the calculation of a kind of ‘leap year’ in the Mayan Calendar, was deemed an impressive curiosity used primarily for astrology.

But UC Santa Prof Barbara’s Gerardo Aldana believes the Venus Table has been misunderstood and vastly underappreciated...