Does an ancient Mayan calendar really predict the end of the world, or perhaps something else, in 2012? Scientists say no, if there's a doomsday this year, it will not be because the Maya forecast ...

Mesoamerican history and the origin of calendars. The cultures in the Formative period of ancient Mesoamerica (1100 BCE to 250 CE) stretched out throughout Central America, with advanced cultures ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Einstein was not the first person to say that space and time were connected; the Mesoamerican expression of this was just a little bit different,” quipped Claudia Brittenham as the audience’s ...

Understanding when, where, and how the Mesoamerican calendar developed is important because the 260-day system underlies many aspects of Maya cosmology, religion, and social life.

The Aztec Sun Stone, which postdates Mayan civilization by 500 years, has absolutely nothing to say about when the world will end. The Maya did have some impressive, if less photogenic, calendars.

The original date the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was supposed to come to an end was December 21, 2012. At the time, ...

These deep-time calendars can be used to count thousands of years into the past and future, countering pop-culture and New Age ideas that Mayan calendars ended on Dec. 21, 2012, (or Dec. 23 ...