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Archaeologists Decipher the Name of the First Known Maya Astronomer

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Jul 14, 2026
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For all the sophistication of Maya astronomy and mathematics, one thing had always been missing, a name. Unlike Greek astronomy, which handed down Ptolemy, Hipparchus, and Eratosthenes for later gene…

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