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 ...

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 ...

Whether it was the lingering aftertaste of the movie 2012, cleverly shot in 2008, or the impending doom advertised by questionable outlets, we knew the Mayan calendar was ending — and so ...

Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced,' said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. He said the date ...

The ban on cellphones in schools is like trying to ban beer from the Super Bowl. The first screen, television, and later video games created a society of couch potatoes. In 2012, the Mayan calendar ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on Tuesday. ( ...

Maya farming was successful because of the accurate and detailed calendars people used. The Tzolkin calendar was also known as the Sacred calendar. It was 260 days long and it was used to keep ...