Maya wall calendar found

摘要

Astronomical tables dating to the Maya civilization's golden age have come to light inside a roughly 1,200-year-old room in Guatemala. Hieroglyphs and numbers painted on the walls of a structure built during the Classic Maya civilization record cycles of the moon, and possibly Mars, Venus and Mercury, Boston University archaeologist William Saturno and his colleagues report in the May 11 Science. The paintings also include human figures (left) that may represent a king talking to a kneeling attendant, says David Freidel of Washington University in St.