An ancient Mayan calendar, the Dresden Codex, was able to predict eclipses for centuries, revealing surprising scientific ...

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 ...

A mural fragment found in a Mayan site in San Bartolo, Guatemala may be the earliest evidence of the 260-day calendar. Two mural fragments excavated at San Bartolo in Guatemala that evince the ...

Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar — and modern-day explorers sipping on ayahuasca — are torn over the implications of the date December 21, 2012, the end of a long count “b’ak’tun” in ...