We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

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 ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where street lamps, electronic ads and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

"Two hundred fifty copies printed for private distribution." "The present reproduction is an absolutely exact photographic facsimile of the original ... The format of the original has been followed ...

The world of history is a fascinating universe, capable of making us travel to the past and giving us more details about glorious eras. In this sense, books help us to decipher history. Among literary ...