codices
Americannoun
noun
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A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.
From Seattle Times
Starting from this perspective, Dr. Ezcurra and his co-authors present a calendar model that matches the location of the sun on the horizon to festivities cited in Mesoamerican codices.
From New York Times
After the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, colonizers destroyed countless codices as well as the Maya glyph system, and the long-term, quantitative sky tracking it enabled.
From Science Magazine
Authors penned chivalric romances and heroic tales of knights battling fantastic monsters and traveling to exotic lands—think, Beowulf and King Arthur—by hand onto parchment and eventually paper codices.
From Science Magazine
The reassembled pages of his once-scattered codices have been reproduced for display in this exhibition; visitors can also explore digitized versions of the codices in-depth using touchscreens.
From Seattle Times
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