Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas

Scientists have long known that the Maya were great thinkers—and we may finally have at least one name to credit.

Archaeologists decipher the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time

Archaeologists exploring the Maya ruins of Xultun in Guatemala have, for the first time, deciphered the name of an ancient ...

Hidden in Maya wall writings: A named astronomer emerges from 1,200-year-old calculations

Researchers have reconstructed and transcribed a mathematical formula from the site of Xultun, Guatemala, revealing the name ...
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Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago ...
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One carved stone in that lost Maya city shows a figure beheading another, dated to the year 849

Among the plazas and terraces of a Maya city recently documented in the Campeche jungle, one slab of limestone stands out ...