‘No Doubt’ Ancient Mayan Book is Genuine, US based ‘Grolier Codex’ Researcher Tells me during our interview ..
Reversals in science can be commonplace and by the very nature of the research, where evidential aspects of a study combine with theoretical explanations, it can also be encouraged. But when it comes to the 900-year-old Grolier Codex, it’s a big deal for archaeology worldwide that such a significant reversal has been made so confidently.
The authenticity of the Grolier Codex has now been disputed for over four decades since it surfaced in 1971. It got named after the book lovers’ Grolier club, where it was first displayed by revered US-based archaeologist Michael Coe, and it is said to be a 900-year-old Mayan astronomy guide.
Coe has been speaking about, and has also written about the questionable history of a book that, if truly authentic as is currently claimed, would make it the oldest known book written in the Americas.
Michael Coe himself, alongside a team of other researchers, including Brown University’s social scientist and Mayanist scholar Stephen Houston, who after intensive reevaluation of the Mayan text, are now declaring it as…