The authenticity of the Grolier Codex has been disputed for the last four decades. A group of researchers who revisited the rare Maya text now argue that there's no way it could be a forgery. If the ...

Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

Banner image: Detail from a document called the Grolier Codex. (Credit: Gerardo Gutiérrez) Josue Saénz Treviño, a renowned collector of antiquities, probably didn’t know what he was getting himself ...

An ancient Mayan document long thought to be a forgery was recently found to be genuine. The text, known as the Grolier Codex, was analyzed by researchers from Yale, Brown, and the University of ...

MEXICO CITY — Fifty-four years after it was sold by looters, an ancient Maya pictographic text was judged authentic by scholars Thursday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

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We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century, Franciscan ...

Page 9 and Page 8 of Códice Maya de México (c. 1100) (all images courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Secretaría de Cultura-INAH-México; all ...

When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...

An ancient Maya document, long dismissed as a fake, is not only the real thing, but it’s the oldest-known book in the Americas. Researchers believe the Grolier codex dates back to the early 13th ...

A bark-paper document with a weird backstory and once suspected to be a forgery is the real deal, researchers say. If true, that increases the likelihood that the plaster-coated book covered with ...