Maya Dresden Codex

by Anonymous

The Dresden Codex, also known as the Codex Dresdensis, is a pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá. This Maya codex is believed to be a copy of an original text of some three or four hundred years earlier. It is the oldest book written in the Americas known to historians. Of the hundreds of books that were used in Mesoamerica before the Spanish conquest, it is one of only 15 that have survived to the present day.

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Published April 1, 2016

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[Lulu]

has been dated to somewhere between the 12th and mid-14th centuries, with one scholar in particular (J. Eric S. Thompson) narrowing those dates to between 1200 and 1250.

Before the authentication of the Maya Codex of Mexico (formerly known as the Grolier codex), it was believed to be the oldest surviving Maya manuscript.