A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

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 ...

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 ...

A year from today the world will come to an end, according to some who cite the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar as evidence of a Dec. 21, 2012, apocalypse. But both astronomers and experts on ...

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.

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 ...

Lowry and Justeson’s analysis involved mathematically modeling the eclipse predictions in the Dresden Codex table and ...

MEXICO CITY – 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 experts ...