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 ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — University of Texas at Austin researchers discovered evidence in Guatemala for the earliest known Maya calendar. According to a UT release, the researchers found and pieced together ...

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet reading room in Dresden, Germany. Known as the Dresden Codex, it’s one of the ...

The calendar, rooted on observations of the movements of the sun, moon and planets, was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days. The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk’in, was one of several ...

Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago. The murals were found in a ...

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