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Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas - Gizmodo

Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas - Gizmodo

Scientists have long known that the Maya were great thinkers—and we may finally have at least one name to credit.

In 2010, archaeologist David Stuart and colleagues ran into a painted chamber at Xultun, a Maya relic in modern-day Guatemala. Then the team noticed that the many mathematical and astronomical formul… [+3695 chars]

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