The Maya predicted the solar eclipse before 8 centuries

Recent research shows that ancient Mayans could accurately predict astronomical events that took place centuries later.

The book "Astronomy in the Maya Codices" , which received an Osterbrock Book Prize for astronomical studies at the American Astronomical Society meeting on January 7, revealed that Mayan information could Predicting astronomical phenomena in the pre-sixteenth century, Livescience reported.

Pictograms in handwritten documents.

The anthropologists, Harvey and Victoria Bricker, spend most of their life learning about prehistoric Maya. They translated the pictograms in ancient Mayan handwritten documents. The two scientists then used the knowledge of planetary orbit and the cycle to find the Mayan calendar connection with the calendar today.

As a result, the two scientists found that the astronomical calendar from the 11th and 12th centuries accurately predicted the solar eclipse that took place July 11, 1991, ie eight centuries after the Mayan civilization ended.

Solar eclipse phenomenon on July 11, 1991. (Photo: NASA)

The researchers discovered that the Mayans had some special points when observing the night sky. They worship the moon and the sun is the gods and goddesses; Venus and Mars are two planets bearing signs of destruction in the sky.