Some believe the world is coming to an end Friday — on 12/21/12 — which is when an important phase on the ancient calendar of the Mayan people terminates. Mayans don’t buy it.

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest calendar of the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. It was written on the walls of a building within a vast lost city buried in the jungles of ...

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 ...

The Maya, who lived in Central America between A.D. 250 and 900, had a cyclical calendar that ran approximately one human lifetime, or 52 years (life was shorter back then).

That's the Maya Long Count calendar, which was designed for keeping track of very long spans of time. ... (1 to 1.6 kilometers), which is difficult to visualize from ground level.

The reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, and while the world didn’t end in 2012, Mayan doomsday is sometime this week or next.

Research shows Mayan calendar's doomsday date may be off by 50 to 100 years. Oct. 20, 2010— -- Doomsday believers, you might be able to breathe a sigh of relief. The much-hyped "prediction ...

Characteristic of this system is the cyclical nature, with the Mayan calendar featuring three common cycles: the Long Count, Tzolk’in (260-day) and the 365-day, solar-based Haab’.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A researcher is arguing that the true “end date” of the Mayan calendar is June 21st ...