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THE MAYAN CODICES

One of the first cultures to have books was the Maya, codices
written on amate paper, folded into "pages" and covered by a
layer of stucco, in which, according to chroniclers, they wrote "about all their
things." Three are preserved, of undoubted authenticity: the Dresden Codex, the Madrid Codex, and the Paris Codex, named after
the cities where they are kept; in the library of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City there is also the Grolier Codex, whose age
has not been verified.