Show U S savants savanis win calendar row R 0 W earliest date in the now new world history Is august ap 6 B C cambridge mass the earliest dates to in new world history are august 0 D B 0 and december 10 ilso D B 0 by the present system of marking time the peabody museum Muse of liar harvard yard university announced in mailing public the final solution of 0 ill the chronology of mayan dates this solution made possible by the studies of dr it if J of the lie museum Is hailed balled na as a distinct victory for the american school of ye research in the records of the ancient anc lerit inhabitants of central america Amerl co since it follows the lines oe of epli approach laid down by several scientists of the united states in contradistinction to the basic theories of the german french and spanish sa these positive tin and d perfectly de nned fined points in chronology probably fell within tile the working years of one of the worlds first scientists the unknown mathematical and astronomical genius who invented the central am amerlean american 0 r calendar and established the mayan era the museums announcement says anys a c spaniards destroyed books actually the numerous dates danei on the monuments of the great mall civilization in yucatan and adjacent territory are arc counted from it a lid beginning ginning day any which corresponds to october 14 B C but this beginning day was reached by putting seven cycles or of das pach each for the post past of t the he world before tile the alst orical first tiny day of tile numerical count this historical first day was an f gust 0 13 0 ai at this time ti numerical record of elapsed days was begun began and in th the years eyears that followed various events were put down its as they happened a procedure which soon gave a picture of time nd adequate equate for the perfection of a cal machine on the second date december 10 13 I 1 0 the perfected calendar of 0 the mayas was formally inaugurated according to lo an inscription at ithe ruined mayan city of copan in western honduras tills this perfected calendar functioned without tile loss of a n single day tor for 2000 years only to break down and pass out of use when mayan books vero vera destroyed by the spanish Inqui inquisition in yucatan in A D 1501 11 discovery of the key to the ancient calendar of the central american indians reveals that surprising intellectual power existed in ill the western world before the lie coming of columbus the report declares and adds doctor solved mystery the inauguration of the perfected mayan calendar on december 10 n B C means the invention before this date of a symbol for zero or completion according to the mayn mind as well weal as engirt numbers it means place value rotation notation in the tha writing of numbers now place value notation was wag unknown to the greeks and the romans and its introduction into western E ku u rope was a accomplished 1 by the arabs tills this was the arabic arlic decimal system upon which modern mathematics depend tho the mayan system was wag arranged on it a modified base of twenty and therefore dors does not exactly parallel the arabic system the inauguration of tile tho alayan calendar nt at this early time HMO means that the billero hieroglyphs glyphis glyphs of the twenty da a of the month the eighteen of tile the year ear etc had already taken form doctor spind en who Is given credit for tile the solution 0 of it mystery that puzzled scientists for many years worked out a day for day correlation of the mayan and Greg gregorian orInn calendars and corroborated lits findings by using dates on monuments in ancient cities copan ellal and palenque in connection with ath absolute astronomical events tables have been formed whereby mayan dates can be transferred easily eastly into christian dates and vice versa told farmer what to do the most dramatic proof Is the discovery that a series of monuments at copan datil with tin an ancient congress of astronomy in wa A D the report says it appears that in 32 A D two monti monuments ments were ivere set up on n hills on cither side bide of the lie valley of copan tile the western one showing clearly on tha skyline these monuments are between tour four and ove five tulles miles apart and a person standing before the eastern one or at some spot in the alt citi r on tile the alno connecting the two konut monuments ants would s so Q the sun set directly behind tin thi western two times in the ho course of the lie year namely april 0 9 and september 2 in the lie average Ore gregorian gorian year both of these dates are recorded nt at copan on various monuments and they appear prominently at oher cities they are connected with calculations cu leading directly to tile the days of tile equinoxes equinox es and solstices sols cices tices the astronomical congress nt at coplin celebrated a common acceptance of certain features of tile the calendar and a shift in the base line which involved involve 4 u concept of relativity too compit complicated bated for easy explanation the mayno mayan year was of days and while alij mayna did riot not interpolate leap year days they knew just pow ow many to allow for ng lag differences for far any aej given number of yeam |