Tanner and Shay found themselves facing an unbearable duality: Preparing for their daughter’s arrival and bracing for her ...

Guatemala City - The most precise and sophisticated calendar ever created is only one of the legacies of the ancient Maya, who also left their mark on the arts, architecture and cooking, experts say.

Night of contact with the stars The ancient site of Chichen Itza, with its 365-step pyramid, will play host on 21 December to an event dubbed "The End of the Long Count Mayan Calendar". A ceremony ...

Eight years ago, the world was supposed to end. At least that’s what some interpreters of the ancient Maya calendar believed. They noted that the Maya Long Count calendar seemed to be running out of ...

It's true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012. That day brings to a close the 13th Bak ...

As a result, several media reports said the actual date the Maya calendar ends is June 21, 2020. The original date the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was supposed to come to an end was December ...

The Maya long-count calendar is the one that has attracted attention from Doomsday theorists – people who believe in a catastrophic end to all life on Earth.

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and ...

Counting on the Maya Calendar News April 12, 2013 (Courtesy Museum der Kulturen Basel and UPenn Museum) ...