Get your calendars out, because there may be a correction to make as a growing list of skeptics – including the Minneapolis professor who re-arranged the zodiac – say the end of Mayan calendar ...

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 Mes… ...

Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world would end all based on this: the Mayan calendar. Well, it’s been more than a decade since ...

A mural fragment found in a Mayan site in San Bartolo, Guatemala may be the earliest evidence of the 260-day calendar.

For these purposes, Maya priests use a 260-day calendar called the Short Count. The Long Count tracks Maya millenniums, centuries, years, months and days, starting with the supposed date of Maya ...

Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the ...

According to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar, civilization as we know it has about 11 months left. But many people in the Mayan heartland — Guatemala — see it differently.

If you were to believe the buzz on social media and in some of the tabloids, you’d want to clear your calendar to account for the impending end of the world on June 21.

By extending the timeframe of the calendar vastly, they found that the numbers were able to line up. The 819-day calendar may not be based on just one set of 819, by 20 of them.

Archaeologists report a striking find in Guatemala of the first Maya art on a wall, as well as the oldest known Maya calendar.

A new Mayan discovery suggests 2012 might not end the calendar after all. The Mayan sculpture ‘Plaque of Venus’ (Venus was one of the most important celestial bodies in the Mayan astronomical ...