UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...

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 ...

CHICO — Despite a flawed calendar prediction, the Mayans” numerical system captured the attention of children at the Gateway Science Museum on Saturday, as they used sticks, marbles and symbols to map ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA— Archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues decided to retest a lintel from the Maya site of Tikal to see if new technology would ...

Around this time, most hotels and restaurants are selling their place as the spot to ring in the New Year and a new beginning. But one downtown hotel is celebrating 2012 as the start of the end of the ...

As the supposed End of the World is fast approaching, at least on the Mayan calendar, an exhibit in Houston is setting out to prove the Apocalypse isn’t just weeks away. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an ...