Hussar
Legend
Just tooling around at BiblioOdyssey, and saw The Dresden Codex which is believed to be the oldest existing book from the Americas. From the blog:
Take a look at the images (they're a bit big to link here). I WANNA use this in a game. Very cool.
The Dresden Codex (named for the city where it is housed) is a fig bark paper manuscript in concertina style, produced around the beginning of the 13th century (a contentious point). The seventy-four pages are sewn together producing an eleven foot long document which was originally folded up between protective wooden covers bearing engraved jaguars. As the most complete of the few remaining Maya manuscripts, it is a comprehensive source for Maya calendar and astronomy systems and an aid to glyph interpretation in the wider iconography of the Maya culture.
Take a look at the images (they're a bit big to link here). I WANNA use this in a game. Very cool.