The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Mayan calendar have been racing to convince people that the Mayas didn’t predict an apocalypse for the end of this year. Some ...

The Maya used "sign language" on an altar around 1,300 years ago, and these signs may represent important dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. "This is the oldest text where, to ...

MEXICO CITY — The national archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayans predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but it has acknowledged that a second reference to ...

A mural fragment found in a Mayan site in San Bartolo, Guatemala may be the earliest evidence of the 260-day calendar. Two mural fragments excavated at San Bartolo in Guatemala that evince the ...

Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar — and modern-day explorers sipping on ayahuasca — are torn over the implications of the date December 21, 2012, the end of a long count “b’ak’tun” in ...

According to conspiracy theorists, fear-mongers, schizophrenic wizards, and new-age paranoiacs, the world is gonna end in approximately 853 days when the Mayan long-count calendar comes to a close.

Saturday, the 22nd of this month, figures to be one of the busiest shopping days ever. That's because the world is scheduled to end Dec. 21. Some people will use any reason to put off Christmas ...

You may want to mark Friday on your calendar. That's the day of the winter solstice, and also the end of the 5,125-year Mayan "long count" calendar. It's also the day that 10 percent of humanity fears ...

So what’s up with this 2012 date? After the Harmonic Convergence and Y2K and the Millennium didn’t pan out as The End of the World, doomsayers latched onto the next thing to come alongthe Mayan Long ...

Only two Maya monuments refer to the end of the 13th bak'tun, which will occur on December 21 (or 23) this year. Part of the controversy over what will happen on that day stems from the inscription on ...