1521 AD MEXICO MAYAN DRESDEN CODEX

A folded section of the Dresden Codex, oldest of the four surviving pre-Columbian Maya books and the finest in execution, its 39 leaves carrying the 260-day Tzolkin ritual calendar along with astronomical tables tracking Venus and eclipses. It reached the Dresden court library in 1739, bought as a curiosity described only as a "Mexican book," and was identified as Maya work more than a century later.

The card

• Date — 1,521 AD
• Where — Maya region, Yucatan (origin); held at the Saxon State and University Library, Dresden. 20.0000, -89.0000 — approximate
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org

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