The Dresden Codex: Full Color Photographic Reproduction - Paperback

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The Dresden Codex, which is also known as the Codex Dresdensis, is a pre-Columbian Mayan book of the eleventh or twelfth century created by the Yucatan Maya. It is believed to be a copy of an original text produced between three and four hundred years earlier. It is the oldest known book to have been written in the Americas known to historians, and one of only fifteen books to have survived to the present day. This edition of the The Dresden Codex is a high quality, full color photographic reproduction and is an excellent resource for those interested in this amazing historical artifact.