Ancient Mayan codex oldest document from the Americas
An ancient Mayan document long thought to be a forgery was recently found to be genuine. The text, known as the Grolier Codex, was analyzed by researchers from Yale, Brown, and the University of California, Riverside, and, according to their results, is the real thing.
The codex—a ten page document consisting of Mayan deity/ritual paintings and a calendar that charts the movement of Venus—dates back to the first half of the 13th century, making it the oldest surviving document from the Americas.
... collector Josue Saenz was flown to a remote airstrip somewhere in the Mexican state of Chiapa, where a crew of looters met him. They showed him the ancient Mayan text, claiming to have found it in a dry cave along with several other artifacts including a wooden mask and sacrificial knife (all which later proved genuine).
... the codex had been radiocarbon-dated to prove that the amate paper used was indeed from the first half of the 13th century.
... the Grolier Codex depicts deities that had yet to be discovered in the 60’s
There are details of the gods shown and the system of writing numbers that have only been revealed to archaeologists long after the time that the Grolier Codex first came to light ...
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/10/05/ancient-mayan-codex-found-to-be-oldest-document-from-americas.html?ICID=ref_fark
Page from the Grolier Codex.
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