The painting, the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli ... The scallop shell had evolved into a Christian symbol of baptism, but in the ancient world, the shell represented the vulva, making ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar ... or 20 cycles of 819. Venus needs seven periods to match five 819-day counts, Saturn has 13 periods to fit ...

and Guatemala between 250 and 650 C.E. As with all pre-Hispanic Mayan societies, the Kaanu’l believed they were the earthly representatives of the gods and took the snake as their symbol.

Pages depicting the Venus table from the Dresden Codex. One of the few Mayan surviving codices, the Dresden Codex, has fascinated historians for centuries. It’s an ancient encyclopaedia of ...

OCOSINGO, Mexico, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The pyramids of the ancient Mayan city of Tonina rise high above the jungle of southeastern Mexico, but deep under the site's most important pyramid a once ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...