Word: codex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science of these first Americans when we consider the fact in an old Maya book, the Dresden Codex, are computations involving nearly twelve and a half million days, or about 34.000 years...
...Chakolol there were three temples, one on the shore and the other two a mile or more inland. One of these has a frescoe with a serpent and a deer painted in a style like the Gro-Cortesian Codex and quite different from Tulum, Chichen Itza or Santa Rita. Paalmul had two temples on the shore and several more half a league inland. Two of them until recently had figures set on the altars. One of these is still in place but the hand is gone and the other has been taken away entirely. We found this evidence that...
...initiative of Mr. Luigl Carnovale of Chicago, the Italians of the United States have presented to the Widener Library at Harvard a facsimile in color of the "Codex Trivulzianus", the oldest dated Tuscan manuscript of Dante's "Divine Comedy". This manuscript was executed in 1337 and is supposed by many to be one of the famous group of Florentine manuscripts known as the "Dantes of the Hundred...