The Maya observed the movement of Venus from 1000 years ago

Found in the Dresden Stock, the most ancient text in America, the Venus Table shows us how much Maya has improved.

New studies of the Dresden Antiquities , an ancient Mayan documentary, the longest book in American history to date, indicate that the ancient Mayans had a major astronomical discovery from the moment. 1,000 years ago.

The astronomical information recorded on the Venusian Table of Dresden is not only an arithmetic as it was previously thought, but it is a star record of the star, a major Mayan discovery. hours.

"What's interesting here is that we are actually studying a scientific work of an ancient astronomer , " according to anthropologist Gerardo Aldana from the University of California.

What the Venus Table recorded shows that the ancient calculations that recorded Venus's movement could indicate that these ancient scientists were following the movement of the sky while standing in the old city. Chichén Itzá, circa 800 to 1,000 AD.

Part of the Venus Table, located in the Dresden Stock.

These calculations are still considered by scholars to be strange calculations, but they are actually calculations of the cycle of Venus's movement within 583.92 days, also calculated in the way that today's calendar We include a leap year.

According to Mr. Aldana's analysis of Venus Table, showing that the keyword in the Table is "k'la" , has a different meaning to what the researchers still identify. According to him, this word should be translated as "up close" , it will give the whole text a more astronomical meaning.

From the new meaning translations, Mr. Aldana thinks this is the Mayan record of historical events as well as astronomical events, to save and use in the future. This is identical to what the Greeks and ancient Egyptians did.

"They retain these documents for a long time and then discover repeating points, into a pattern in those recorded figures. The history of the entire Western astronomy is also based on Such ways, " he added.

The "observatory" at Chichen Itza, it is possible that ancient astronomers from here have followed the movements of stars.

To test these hypotheses, Mr. Aldana considered another Maya archaeological site, Copán in Honduras. The records of Venus here completely coincide with the Venusian Table in the Dresden Stock. This gave further evidence that the ancient Mayans tracked planetary motions and considered them as historical and scientific evidence left for future research.

"They followed Venus not only to record its movements, but also to use special rituals," said Aldana. "It seems that the Mayans have the opportunity to gather all the city, perform rituals based on the position of Venus."

If the new information on the Venus Table is completely accurate, then we will be able to prove that the Mayan calculations are not just ordinary calculations, it is a great scientific achievement based on what they observed in the universe.

We may have misunderstood about the Mayans, because with what we find, we just put them together and that cannot help us have an overview of the meaning of ancient texts as well as those Scientific discovery that the Mayans have conducted since more than 1,000 years ago.