With chatter about the Mayan apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Mayan calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that ...

The discovery of a clear calendar date at a Preclassical Maya site shows that ancient peoples were using the calendar around 300 B.C.

With chatter about the Mayan apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Mayan calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that ...

With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that ...

The 260-day calendar system “survived not only close to 1,800 years in the Maya world before the Spanish showed up, but it persisted even more recently, since conquests . . . in some of the most ...

Calendar cycles were divided into “baktuns” — periods of 144,000 days — and Dec. 21 marks the day when the Mayan calendar rolls into its 13th cycle, with a date of “13.0.0.0.0.” ...

Mayan calendar ends; world doesn't December 21, 2012 / 4:36 PM EST / CBS/AP MERIDA, Mexico Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world.

The Mayan calendar is based on a 20-day cycle in 394-year increments known as a Baktun. On one tablet at a set of ruins in Mexico, the calendar stops at Baktun 13.

The Maya calendar combines the numbers 1 through 13 with 20 words for animals, plants, or concepts. Those 20 words rotate in a set order; for instance, Deer is always followed by Rabbit, Water ...

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world to end on that date, researchers said.

Archaeologists excavating a Mayan site in San Bartolo, Guatemala have discovered what they believe to be the oldest calendar notation from the region, which they date to between 300 and 200 BCE.

The Mayan Long Count Calendar, which did not predict a doomsday, included dates written out as five hieroglyphs separated by four periods. With chatter about the Mayan apocalypse intensifying as ...