The Dresden Codex is a manuscript dating from pre -Columbian times and which is original from the Maya civilization of the Yucatan peninsula. Somehow the document found it’s way to Vienna back in the 1700′s where it has been bought by the director of the Dresden Library of that time, Johann Christian Götze. The library first published the codex in 1848, however during WWII the building was bombed, sustaining massive damage. The bombing also destroyed parts of the codex together with the library walls, but they were later restored. This manuscript is one of the thee most important writing we have preserved from the Mayan civilization of Central America. In total there are 74 pages, folded in an accordion-style, which are written and painted on both sides with astonishing craftsmanship. The paintings in the Dresden Codex are very accurately made using fine brushes and also using the specific blue color which cannot be reproduced by modern techniques: the Mayan blue. Various themes make the object of the document, including: astronomical observations, agricultural and climate advice and medical knowledge.