Controversial Maya codex proves genuine: oldest document from ancient America

Posted On: Nov 2nd, 2016 at 00:59

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The Grolier Codex, found the the 1960s and thought to be a fake, has now been proven to be genuine. The manuscript is the oldest book found anywhere in ancient America and is dated to the 13th Century.
The codex has had a controversial history since its discovery, but academia’s previous reasoning for the codex being a fake cannot be attributed to academic reasoning!
Because the codex was found by looters in 1964, and it wasn’t discovered by archaeologists or anyone that was considered to be in possession of a trusting personality, scholars believed it was a fake. But not only is the codex genuine, carbon dating has proven the codex to be older than the three other famous surviving Maya codices – the Dresden Codex, Madrid Codex, and Paris Codex.
In fact, even with removing the results of the Carbon 14 test, the reasons for its authenticity are so obvious the mind boggles that anyone would have considered the codex to be a fake in the first place.
I would love to have a rant about this error and the knowledge filtering peer-review process but I won’t.

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-13th-century-maya-codex-shrouded.html