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 ...

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 ...

Get your calendars out, because there may be a correction to make as a growing list of skeptics – including the Minneapolis professor who re-arranged the zodiac – say the end of Mayan calendar may be ...

If you thought 365 days was a long time, try resetting your calendar every 18,980 days instead. 52 solar years make up the longest cycle of the Mayan calendar – a complex and ancient system that’s ...

A woman walks pass as Honduran carpenter Alejandro David Espinoza Salinas carves in stone a Mayan sculpture amid the quarantine ordered by the Honduran government to help curb the spread of the novel ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A recalculation of the Maya calendar does not suggest the world is ...

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations ...

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 ...

Seconds ago, the ancient Mayan calendar ran out. For some, this meant the world would also end. But we're all still here! YAY! Of course, scientists already knew that Earth had nothing to worry about.

An accidental discovery in Guatemala has revealed ancient Mayan calculations etched onto the walls of a buried room. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayan astrology is a modern term for a form of Mesoamerican calendrical and divinatory tradition that dates back to 2000 BCE. This ...

MERIDA, Mexico Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic than cosmic, the punch line of ...