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The Maya Astronomy Page

http://www.michielb.nl/maya/

Contains study of Maya mathematics, geographical orientation, writing, calendar, and Maya-related links.

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Sun key to Mayan misery?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1337859.stm

The BBC report on a theory that Mayan astronomy may have been inspired by fluctuations in the brightness of the sun.

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Southernmost Rise of Venus at Uxmal, 1997

http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~n6tst/maya/

Pictorial account of the expedition to photograph the southernmost rise of Venus (which occurs once every eight years) from the ancient Maya city in western Yucatan.

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Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy

http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/meso_astro.html

A review of prehispanic astronomic knowledge: numeration, calendars, dates, stelae, codices and architecture. Extensive bibliography

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Maya Calendar

http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/maya/cont.htm

An explanation of the long count, the tzolkin-haab and the relation between the Maya Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar.

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Dresden Codex

http://www.baktun.de/English/Dating_the_eclipse_table/dating_the_eclipse_table.html

Dating the eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, with solution of the correlation problem. Technical.

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