Discover what your Maya sign could mean through the ancient calendar system and how it connects to modern astrology ...

A stone monument in Mexico has rewritten the history of Maya kingship and calendar use, predating the previous record at ...

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 ...

An undated artists reconstruction of the ceremonial structures dating to about 200 BC to 300 BC at the San Bartolo Preclassic ancient Maya site in Guatemala where evidence was found for the earliest ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest known record of the Mayan calendar system. Among them was an art history professor from the University of Texas at Austin. The team ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ancient prophecy. As researchers keep pointing out, the real story is less ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The research team scoured the 12th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table. This codex, which was ...

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 ...

Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago. The murals were found in a ...

As the date that some claim marks the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar approaches on Friday, December 21, 2012, Drexel University’s Dr. Judith Storniolo, a teaching professor of anthropology ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the oldest evidence of the Maya calendar on record: two mural fragments that, when pieced together, reveal a notation known as "7 deer," a new study finds.