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Venus in the Codices: How Maya Astronomers Mastered the Morning Star
Long before European navigators learned to read the sky for longitude, Maya astronomers had already spent centuries tracking a single brilliant point of light with an accuracy that still astonishes modern researchers. That light was Venus — Chak Ek’, the Great Star — and the knowledge they built around it was not merely observational. It…
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