If some interpretations of the Mayan calendar are correct, we’ll all be gone next year. While every other doomsday prediction has (obviously) come and gone, some people think that the Maya knew ...

MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ancient prophecy. As researchers keep pointing out, the real story is less ...

15 Feb 2011, Mexico --- Ruins at Palenque --- Image by © Robert Landau/Corbis My friends Nancy and David Orr own a gorgeous bed-and-breakfast in San Cristóbal ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . If you still need something to panic about, Tulane University’s Marc Zender, who led the expedition, says that the Mayan calendar still begins a new ...

As the date that some claim marks the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar approaches on Friday, December 21, 2012, Drexel University’s Dr. Judith Storniolo, a teaching professor of anthropology ...

Doomsday theorists were once convinced the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. Apparently, the reading of the Mayan calendar was incorrect, so this is your one-week warning. A report in The New York ...

Doomsday theorists were once convinced the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. Apparently, the reading of the Mayan calendar was incorrect, so this is your one-week warning. A report in The New York ...

Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that ...

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 ...