The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded ... two Tulane University scholars highlighted how researchers never could quite explain the 819-day count calendar until they broadened their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Still, plenty of people around the world are taking precautions ahead of the day when the Mayan calendar ends and, the theory goes, so does life as we know it. Here, a look at some of the unusual ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

and the complex Maya calendar. Contrasts are made with British civilisation at the time. This short film is from the BBC series, History of Early Civilisations - Maya. Through parodies of reality ...