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Pages: 264
Authors: Merideth Paxton
Categories: History
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Traces implications of a previously unrecognized image of the solar year in the Madrid Codex to find new meanings in the Dresden Codex and the Maya calendar sys
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Authors: Gabrielle Vail
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The Paris Codex
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The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: The Classic period inscriptions
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For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists