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 ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

No need to fret — depending on the calendar interpretation you believe and your current time zone, you still have approximately 364.5 days left until the end of the world (or “cycle” — whatever floats ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - The world will end on Friday - at least that's according to the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The ancient Mayan civilization made the ominous prediction about December 2012 thousands of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...