Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

Years the Mayan calendar actually continues after this week ... "The Maya never said anything about the end of the world or anything about a great change in the universe on that date," Stuart ...

The Mayan "long count" calendar progresses using a cycle of approximately ... reference to a god of war descending from the sky at the end of the 13th baktun. That artifact has fed widespread ...

The Mayan civilization, based in modern day Mexico and Central America, reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD and had a talent for astronomy Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 BC ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

the Gregorian calendar—what we use today—is an improvement of the Julian calendar. The Mayan Calendar is one of these calendars that has withstood the test of time. Although it has not been ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

the world was supposed to end. A grain of truth — there’s usually at least a grain of truth — about the Mayan calendar (that one of its long-running cycles ended in December 2012 ...