Archaeology on IT News https://it-news.uk/tags/archaeology/ Recent content in Archaeology on IT News Hugo en-us Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 A Maya mathematician named 'White-chested Fox' left a formula on a wall 1300 years ago — archaeologists just decoded his signature https://it-news.uk/posts/1300-year-old-maya-mathematician-formula-discovered/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/1300-year-old-maya-mathematician-formula-discovered/ <p>Deep inside a small stone chamber in northeastern Guatemala, a Maya scribe once hunched over walls covered in glyphs, working out the rhythms of planets and stars. On one wall, he scratched a compact mathematical formula linking Venus, Mars, and the Sun into a single 2,920-day cycle. And then he signed his name.</p>