Characteristic of this system is the cyclical nature, with the Mayan calendar featuring three common cycles: the Long Count, Tzolk’in (260-day) and the 365-day, solar-based Haab’. Combined ...

Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with ... one planet,” the authors write, “the Maya astronomers who created the 819-day count envisioned it as a larger calendar ...

Mr Gronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C. The fragment was a prophecy of then ruler Bahlam Ajaw, ...

The movie ‘2012’, based on the global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar’s current cycle on or around December 21, 2012 hit the cinemas depicting the natural ...