Mayan document known as Codex of Grolier was finally elucidated

Mayan document known as Code of Grolier received attention when it was exhibited in New York City`s Grolier Club in 1971.

Discovered in 1960 in vague circumstances, it was considered a copy from the outset. For decades, the ten pages of paintings and astronomical calendars dust was placed in a museum warehouse Mexican. But a study by researchers at Yale University, Brown and California has determined that it is a Mayan text written in the twelfth century and is the oldest document created in America.

In 1966, Collector Mexican Josué Saenz is presented by a group of men that he does not know a document which, as said by them, represent a code Mayan, claiming that they had discovered in a cave in foothills of the Sierra de Chiapas, along with other Mayan artifacts. At the time, experts have concluded that it is a fake.

Grolier Codex photo: vnews.agency

Five years later, Saenz instructed him archaeologist Michael Coe document outlining the Grolier Club in New York, in an exhibition entitled "Ancient Mayan Calligraphy", which aroused the interest of researchers and archaeologists. Recently, he went back to the attention of scientists and archaeologist Coe and his colleague tried to prove the truth of its working two years to achieve this purpose, but were poised to its predecessor, the falsification, for they realized that using a particular blue pigment that was used in it requires a technique which was invented at the time.

According to Dr. Stephen Houston, of Brown University, many doubts about this document can be attributed to how it was obtained, explaining that an artifact with unclear provenance born such rumors.

It is this uncertain provenance has caused archaeologists to question originaliatetea this artifact. However, it is believed that it was moved from its original place and that they can get the notoriety it deserves, that of a work of art of the late Mayan civilization and the oldest book created in America.


But a study by researchers at Yale University, Brown and California has determined that it is a Mayan text written in the twelfth century and is the oldest document created in America.


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The mystery of the famous '' Alien '' Atacama continues in 2018

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the mysterious Atacama desert in Chile in 2003

Ata is the common name given to the 6-inch (150 mm)-long skeletal remains of a human that were found during 2003 in a deserted Chilean town in the Atacama Desert, hence the abbreviated name. The remains have been placed in a private collection in Spain. 

According to a local Chilean newspaper, La Estrella de Arica (es), Ata was found in northern Chile by Oscar Muñoz, who later sold the remains; their current owner is Ramón Navia-Osorio, a Spanish businessman.

Experts have discovered a small skeleton that looked like that of a human, except for some features that have made the researchers think. After the image appeared on the Internet, many people said it could be an alien. But experts have conducted tests to discover the identity of abnormal skeleton, nicknamed Ata.

The skeleton has only 15 centimeters long at first glance many said they could be the skeleton of a premature baby, others said it could be just a hoax. Ata's size is not the only thing that has amazed scientists, the skeleton show physical deformities. For example, humans have 12 ribs, but the skeleton has only 10, and head shape sharp as conferred by turicefalie. Deformation of the face and jaw gave him a look that is not earthly.

The skeleton was part of a private collection until 2009, when he was brought in a symposium in Barcelona. In autumn 2012, researchers have been offered the chance to study it on Ata x-rays and genetic samples. 

The images could be seen carried lungs and heart of the individual. Preliminary studies have shown that this is matter of human origin, but 9% of material not matched the reference genome. Mitochondrial DNA study revealed that Ata's mother was originally from the same place where the skeleton was discovered.

One of the most impressive findings from the analysis was that Ata was not a fetus. It had teeth like those of a grown man, and the bones were well developed as those of a child between 6 and 8 years. How could a 6 year old to have only six centimeters?

Some of the explanations as dwarfism, progeria (premature aging) or mummification a fetus.

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