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The Mayan Calendar
The Mayans created, perhaps, the most detailed calendar of all time. They tracked eclipses, and the paths of Mercury and Venus with better percision than any other civilization until such time that computers were created and could do more detailed calculations.
The Mayan calendar was a complex joining of different cycles. The largest cycle ends on December 21, 2012 and by the Mayan calendar would represent the end of the 5th and final cycle of civilization.
The Codex
Only a handful of codex (Mayan books) remain. They are named after their current locations. What little we know of their civilzation comes from these codex. The only remaining codices are:
- The Madrid Codex, also known as the Tro-Cortesianus Codex;
- The Dresden Codex;
- The Paris Codex, also known as the Peresianus Codex;
- The Grolier Codex, also known as the Grolier Fragment.
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