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The authenticity of the Grolier Codex, a controversial Mayan document, has been verified by researchers:
The study, Houston said, "is a confirmation that the manuscript, counter to some claims, is quite real. The manuscript was sitting unremarked in a basement of the National Museum in Mexico City, and its history is cloaked in great drama. It was found in a cave in Mexico, and a wealthy Mexican collector, Josué Sáenz, had sent it abroad before its eventual return to the Mexican authorities."
For years, academics and specialists have argued about the legitimacy of the Grolier Codex, a legacy the authors trace in the paper. Some asserted that it must have been a forgery, speculating that modern forgers had enough knowledge of Maya writing and materials to create a fake codex at the time the Grolier came to light. The codex was reportedly found in the cave with a cache of six other items, including a small wooden mask and a sacrificial knife with a handle shaped like a clenched fist, the authors write. They add that although all the objects found with the codex have been proven authentic, the fact that looters, rather than archeologists, found the artifacts made specialists in the field reluctant to accept that the document was genuine.
[...] Houston and his co-authors analyzed the origins of the manuscript, the nature of its style and iconography, the nature and meaning of its Venus tables, scientific data — including carbon dating — of the manuscript, and the craftsmanship of the codex, from the way the paper was made to the known practices of Maya painters. Over the course of a 50-page analysis, the authors take up the questions and criticisms leveled by scholars over the last 45 years and describes how the Grolier Codex differs from the three other known ancient Maya manuscripts but nonetheless joins their ranks.
The Grolier's composition, from its 13th-century amatl paper, to the thin red sketch lines underlying the paintings and the Maya blue pigments used in them, are fully persuasive, the authors assert. Houston and his coauthors outline what a 20th century forger would have had to know or guess to create the Grolier, and the list is prohibitive: he or she would have to intuit the existence of and then perfectly render deities that had not been discovered in 1964, when any modern forgery would have to have been completed; correctly guess how to create Maya blue, which was not synthesized in a laboratory until Mexican conservation scientists did so in the 1980s; and have a wealth and range of resources at their fingertips that would, in some cases, require knowledge unavailable until recently.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @10:18AM
No one cares what a bunch of stupid wetbacks think or say, whether now or six hundred years ago.
That's why we're gonna throw that raping, drug-dealing scum and the disease-ridden whores they use to dilute our purity out of our country.
We're gonna MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!
Trump/Pence 2016
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @12:48PM
No one cares what a bunch of stupid wetbacks think or say, whether now or six hundred years ago.
That's why we're gonna throw that raping, drug-dealing scum and the disease-ridden whores they use to dilute our purity out of our country.
We're gonna MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!
Trump/Pence 2016
Of course this was modded troll, because it goes against the idiotic librul narrative that says everyone is the same. They're not. The fucking mexicans are ruining this country, helped along by the just as sub-human jews who have been eating oujr babies for generations. That's what *really* happened to Jon-Benet Ramsey.
And the jews love the mexicans because they're all on welflare and their whores pump out babies so fast, and their below normal intelligence lets the jews just take their babies to be 'adopted'. Adopted. Yeah, that's a good one. The jews even have their own baby marinade called Soy Vay [soyvay.com] that they slather on the mexican babies while they grill them.
I suppose that's better than cooking and eating our white babies, but we don't need the drug-addled mexicans and the jews can move to mexico.
That's why I'm going to kill as many niggers and spics as I can before the election. To make sure that jew-and-nigger-loving cunt Hillary doesn't get elected.
Trump/Pence 2016! MAGA!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday September 08 2016, @02:00PM
Truly Trumppence worth, if ever there was such a thing.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @02:21PM
How many boxes of LEGOS will it take to build "The Really Tremendous Great Wall of Trump"?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:07PM
Duplo, City, Space or Technic?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:34PM
Trump Legos. Those are the best Legos. They're really good Legos.
Duplo? Sad!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday September 08 2016, @08:01PM
I figured Duplo would be more Trump's thing.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday September 08 2016, @10:52PM
Nah, too complicated, and the size makes him feel insecure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @12:07AM
Too big for his tiny hands?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @12:41AM
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @03:53AM
Since "...under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble," General Ripper [imdb.com] is a shoe-in for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration.
All is as it should be. Vote Trump/Pence!