November 18, 2009-Roland Emmerich’s special effects extravaganza 2012 has taken up the baton in the latest leg of humanity’s millennia-spanning race toward the End of Days. But for many, it’s running ...

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the ...

Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that ...

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 ...

My friends Nancy and David Orr own a gorgeous bed-and-breakfast in San Cristóbal, Mexico, called the Casa Felipe Flores – and you better book early if you want a room this year. San Cristóbal sits in ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . If you still need something to panic about, Tulane University’s Marc Zender, who led the expedition, says that the Mayan calendar still begins a new ...

With rumors of a Mayan apocalypse making the rounds online and at the water cooler, when do we know the world is out of danger from the various astronomical and other cataclysms claimed by some to ...

Only two Maya monuments refer to the end of the 13th bak'tun, which will occur on December 21 (or 23) this year. Part of the controversy over what will happen on that day stems from the inscription on ...

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 ...