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