Dating to around 1560 and known as Codex Selden, or Codex Anute ... which served as the common writing system of the Mixtec and other Mesoamerican communities. As the researchers write in a ...

This is the first time an early Mexican codex has been proven to be a palimpsest. 'What's interesting is that the text we've found doesn't match that of other early Mixtec manuscripts. The ...

"Hyperspectral imaging has shown great promise in helping us to begin to reconstruct the story of the hidden codex and ultimately to recover new information about Mixtec history and archaeology ...

Beneath a layer of plaster and chalk on the back of the later codex, they found a series of figures laid out like a cartoon strip, similar to Mixtec manuscripts found in the area of present-day ...

The drawings are also unusual for a Maya document, combining styles of the Mesoamerican Mixtec ... their art shares many similarities with late Maya art. Though carbon dating placed the Codex ...

500 years ago, during the last days of 1519 and the first days of 1520., Hernán Cortés sent to the Mixtec region, the first expedition in charge of one of his Spanish captains, Gonzalo de ...

The Codex Selden, from the pre-colonial Mixtec town of Anute, is one of just five surviving codices from the area, now Oaxaca state in the south of the country. It was long suspected the Codex ...

This news comes on the heels of the recent unveiling of a slew of hidden images in the Codex Selden, a Mixtec manuscript donated to the Bodleian Libraries in the 1600s. The heights of the Maya ...