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Be advised. This is now a Sak Tahn Waax stan account! Scholarly paper: Rossi, Franco D., David Stuart, and Heather Hurst. “The Identification and Work of an Eighth-Century Maya Mathematician.” Antiquity, July 14, 2026, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10378. News reporting: Simms, Chris. “Mathematics Formula Found on Maya Wall Rivals Insights of Ancient Masters.” Nature, ahead of print, July 14, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02170-8. > In this article, we present a newly deciphered calendrical formula; designated Text 19, it is located within a chamber of wall paintings at the site of Xultun, Guatemala. Text 19 records a unique set of astronomical calculations that were attributed to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax (‘White-chested Fox’). Unlike the units of time grounded by historical context that are commonly recorded in formal inscriptions, Text 19 presents a sequence of dates with calendrical intervals as a mathematical exercise associated with idealised numbers. Its nested cycles encode ...