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Dresden Codex
The Dresden Codex is a Maya book of the 11th or 12th century, probably from the region of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, and one of four Maya hieroglyphic books to survive. Painted by eight scribes on folded bark paper, it contains Venus tables, lunar tables linked to eclipses and ritual calendars. It was long thought the oldest surviving book from the Americas, until the Maya Codex of Mexico proved older in 2018. Bought in Vienna in 1739, it is held by the Saxon State Library in Dresden and was badly damaged by water in 1945.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Dresden Codex. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/dresden-codex
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