Posted on 08/22/2016 8:51:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
nown as the Codex Selden, the mysterious book dates to about 1560. Other Mexican codices recovered from this period contained colorful pictographs — images that represent words or phrases — which have been translated as descriptions of alliances, wars, rituals and genealogies, according to the study authors.
But Codex Selden was blank — or so it seemed. Made from a strip of deerskin measuring about 16 feet (5 meters) long, the hide was folded accordion-style into pages, which were layered with a white paint mixture known as gesso. In the 1950s, experts suspected that there might be more to this codex than its empty pages suggested, when cracks in the gesso revealed tantalizing glimpses of colorful images lurking underneath the chalky outer layer, which was likely added so that the book could be reused.
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gnip
500-year old Mexican centerfold?
The Burrito Code.
translation..ya put the lime in the coconut to make you feel better.
Oh great...now I’m going to have that song in my head all day.
Looks like it’s going to be a hot one!!
16 foot deer skin? I guess they grew bigger back then.
Imagine the antlers on that deer!
Geez, they could have at least super duper photographed the last page so we’d know how the story ends.
So, they couldn’t erase their documents 500 years ago, and expect them to stay that way. Sounds like the modern day FBI and hard drives.
bump
Cool.
Some years ago I read where they took confetti-like remnants of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and using DNA of the lambskin, were able to piece together another couple of pages. Amazing. I wonder if they used the technique that scanned in broken pieces of pottery and then using a computer program, matched them together, saving TONS on mind-numbing manual effort.
It is the yucatec maya version ofor the Seldon Plan, but Foundation Psychohistorians. Forgot the Cortez algorithm when first distributed to Arcturus.
Not to mention ebullicant toelingus.
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