Experts in Mexico confirm nearly 1,000-year-old Mayan text is real

[Judi Lynn]

Experts in Mexico confirm nearly 1,000-year-old Mayan text is real
The calendar-style text was made between 1021 and 1154 A.D. and it's the oldest known pre-Hispanic document.
by Associated Press / Aug.31.2018 / 10:14 AM ET



This undated photo released by Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) shows an ancient Maya pictographic text that has been judged authentic by scholars in Mexico City.INAH via AP


MEXICO CITY — Fifty-four years after it was sold by looters, an ancient Maya pictographic text was judged authentic by scholars Thursday.

Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology said the calendar-style text was made between 1021 and 1154 A.D. and is the oldest known pre-Hispanic document.

The 10 surviving pages of the tree-bark folding “book” will now be known as the Mexico Maya Codex. It had been known as the Grolier Codex. It may have originally had 20 pages, but some were lost after centuries in a cave in southern Chiapas state.

It contains a series of observations and predictions related to the astral movement of Venus. Mayan texts are written in a series of syllabic glyphs, in which a stylized painted figure often stands for a syllable.

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/experts-mexico-find-nearly-1-000-year-old-authentic-mayan-n905376

Science:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122859269

[d_r]

1. Pre Hispanic

Seems such a funny term. O wonder why not pre columbian

[whistler162]

2. Let me guess.....

F*** you Trump we will not pay for the wall!

[greyl]

3. Finally converted to multimedia message nt

[soryang]

4. Early Chinese writing 1500 to 1000 BCE

Years ago, I visited the Chinese National Museum in Taipei. I understood that most of the exhibits there had been removed from the mainland by the retreating Republican Army at the end of the civil war. Seeing the original scripts carved in bone as described by this web site below really gave me a new insight to how language and cultural life are related.

Whatever the obscure initial phase of written Chinese was, its appearance during the Shang dynasty already exhibited sign of a very complex system. The earliest form of Chinese writing is called the oracle bone script, used from 1500 to 1000 BCE. This script was etched onto turtle shells and animals bones, which were then heated until cracks would appear. By interpreting the pattern of the cracks, Shang court officials would make divinations of future events, hence giving the name "oracle bones" to these animal bones...

http://www.ancientscripts.com/chinese.html

Anyone interested in the original post above about the Mayan script might also enjoy looking at this site.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. That is a cool link.

thanks for sharing it.

[NBachers]

6. It doesn't look like very nice things are happening in these pictures.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Probably Not

The Pre-Conquest Mayans did perform human sacrifices, perhaps not on as massive a scale as did the Aztecs, but they did perform them.

Contrary to a meme spread and lovingly nurtured by all too many progressives, Western Imperialists did not have an exclusive monopoly on human cruelty and wickedness.