Joshua Foer

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

American Journalist

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Ronen Bergman

Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.

Israeli Journalist

Felicia Day

I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

American Actress

Robert Darnton

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

American Historian

Dan Brown

I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

American Author

John Updike

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

American Novelist

Gary Jennings

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Refers to ancient or historical books, used often in academic or archaeological discussions.

Historical Artifact

Unlike modern books, a codex is handwritten, not printed, emphasizing its uniqueness and age.

Not Printed

A codex is traditionally bound and has pages, distinguishing it from scrolls or tablets.

Physical Attributes

Signifies a volume of laws or regulations, often used legally or in academic contexts.

Legal Collection

Represents an official, formal source of laws, not informal guidelines or suggestions.

Authoritative Source

A codex may contain outdated laws, important to check if it's the latest version.

Not Always Current

In computing, relates to data processing, not to be confused with 'cooking recipes'.

Technical Term

It refers to encoding/decoding digital data, like for compressing video or audio files.

Digital Coding

Refers to the technology that allows files to be compatible with different software.

File Compatibility

 to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.

Feats of memory anyone...

 Probably not. But is this? To answer these questions, we need to go back to the start of the book as we know it and understand how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts. The earliest object that we think of as a book is the codex, a stack of pages bound along one edge.

The evolution of the...

 He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics. It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script. On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality,

Ben Dunlap: The...

 We go by a term called the codex, where they would have two heavy pieces of wood which become the cover, and then the pages in between would then be stitched along one side to make something that was relatively easily transportable. They all had to completely be done by hand,

Why books are here to...

 he took a special interest in the codices i mean when you think that they destroyed all these books it just hurts but amazingly some codices are still around today held in museum collections all over the world and when i say amazingly i mean it one

The Aztecs: From Empire...

 have a sense of time coming to an end they had a sense of themselves involved with the cycles of time around them for those of you that want to see what a codex looks like this is the dresden the tables that I've just shown you could

Bill Saturno: Adding...

 to use chocolate as a symbol for a social union. This image was made between the 13th century and the early 16th century, and it is part of the “Zouche-Nuttall Codex.” The codex is composed of 47 painted deer skins,

Germán Santillán: A...

 reach into our own time our ancestors said that when the last days draw closer many people will die and bad things will happen a doomsday prophecy in an ancient codex speaks of floods fiery rain and

Maya Doomsday Prophecy PIPE...

 the sun for one reason the Sun winked out of existence they knew they were dead Mexican codices illustrate victims laid over stone their hearts ritually

Exo-Cannibalism PIPE...

 deciphering the Codex today the conjurations seem to support the theory of a lone scribe a single monk atoning for his sins penning the