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Yale and Brown professors team up to confirm ancient text

Yale and Brown professors team up to confirm ancient text

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BOSTON – A team of anthropologists and art history experts, led by professors from Yale and Brown, has proven once and for all the authenticity of a controversial 13th century Mayan text. Their findings confirm the document, called the Grolier Codex, is indeed the oldest writing to be discovered in the Americas. Michael Coe, a professor emeritus of archeology and anthropology at Yale, led the assembled researchers in uncovering the truth behind the much-disputed Codex. He was joined by Stephen

BOSTON – A team of anthropologists and art history experts, led by professors from Yale and Brown, has proven once and for all the authenticity of a controversial 13th century Mayan text. Their findings confirm the document, called the Grolier Codex, is indeed the oldest writing to be discovered in the Americas. Michael Coe, a professor emeritus of archeology and anthropology at Yale, led the assembled researchers in uncovering the truth behind the much-disputed Codex. He was joined by Stephen…