Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Displayed is a facsimile edition of the Dresden Codex, the most comprehensive source of Maya astronomy and calendar systems. It includes tables for predicting events and scheduling religious ceremonies that are based on the solar cycle and the cycles of the Moon and Venus. The codex was probably sent by Hernán Cortés to Emperor Charles V in 1519 and was acquired by the Royal Library in Saxony in Dresden in 1744.
Displayed is a facsimile edition of the Dresden Codex, the most comprehensive source of Maya astronomy and calendar systems. It includes tables for predicting events and scheduling religious ceremonies that are based on the solar cycle and the cycles of the Moon and Venus. The codex was probably sent by Hernán Cortés to Emperor Charles V in 1519 and was acquired by the Royal Library in Saxony in Dresden in 1744.