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Video explaining the fourth Maya codex

2nd Mar 2023

Video explaining the fourth Maya codex

Mexican visitors viewing the fourth Maya codex

We’re happy to share here an illuminating new (2023) video ‘The Codex Maya of Mexico (Codice Maya) Fully Explained, page-by-page. Formerly the Grolier Codex’ by Professor Gilbert Estrada of Long Beach City College, California. Main picture: Mexican visitors viewing the Códice Maya de México on display at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, August 2022.

Professor Estrada explains:-
’The Códice Maya de México has one primary story, it records the complex movements of the planet Venus across its 4 cycles. The 10-pages codex records 65 complete Venus Cycles, which takes a total of 104 years.
The Maya Codex of Mexico was written in 1,110 CE by a single Mayan scribe. It is the oldest book in all the Americas. This video will translate this 900 year old Maya Codex, page-by-page.
The book was found in the 1960s by looters, and it’s taken more than 50 years to analyze and authenticate this book. But this Mexican book is 100% real.’

Photos by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore.

Watch Professor Estrada’s very brief video on the Mayan Codex and the 4 phases of the Venus cycle

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