💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦊🔢 Archaeologists have identified #Saktahnwaax, a #Maya mathematician-astronomer from around 800 CE, as the first named scientist of the pre-Columbian Americas.
Found in a painted chamber at #Xultun, #Guatemala, his name appears alongside advanced formulas, including a 2,920 day cycle that integrates #solar and #Venus years.
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Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas
Scientists have long known that the Maya were great thinkers—and we may finally have at least one name to credit.Gayoung Lee (Gizmodo)
