With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as ...

A glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one ...

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 ...

Among the inscriptions excavated from the ruins of the ancient Maya civilization, there are those with a period of 819 days, and the mystery of why the number 819 has bothered many scholars so far.

Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...

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 fragments showing a dot and a line that are part of the number seven as well as part of a deer's head.Karl Taube. Cortesía del Proyecto Regional Arqueológico San Bartolo-Xultun Boris Beltrán was a ...

A recalculation of the Maya calendar does not suggest the world is going to end this week. Reports of our impending doom surfaced after a Twitter user posed a series of tweets claiming to have ...