A fact from Paris Codex appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that it is not known how the Paris Codex(pages pictured), one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, came to be in the collection of the Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
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It seems curious that the pre-columbian people should have independently arrived at using paper and at the format of a "book" with multiple pages. Is this so? Did they use the same material to produce paper as contemporary Europeans? Is there more information about this? Tenbergen (talk) 04:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Following some of the wikilinks will give you more info (Maya codices for example), and your questions are answered in the infobox at the top of the article (screenfold book, made of bark paper), I dropped a link in to amate, the type of paper the Maya used. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 06:54, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
