codex

The codex, an early form of the modern book and an alternative to reading on long scrolls, began to appear around the first century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of their ritual and sacrificial ceremonies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

He has now dispatched an army of stabby crab-like aliens through portals to retrieve the Eddie-Venom codex and free himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

The drawing at left, from a sixteenth-century codex, is a winter- count-like depiction of a year dominated by smallpox; two men lie dying or dead, their bodies spotted with pustules.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The temporary exchange of the two codices was agreed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during a visit by the latter to Mexico last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Starting from this perspective, Dr. Ezcurra and his co-authors present a calendar model that matches the location of the sun on the horizon to festivities cited in Mesoamerican codices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

After the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, colonizers destroyed countless codices as well as the Maya glyph system, and the long-term, quantitative sky tracking it enabled.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022

Nudzahui writing survives in eight codices, the deerskin or bark “books” whose painted pages could be folded like screens or hung on the wall like a mural.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann