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 ...

Two mural fragments excavated at San Bartolo in Guatemala that evince the earliest known Mayan ... the calendar symbol for “7 Deer,” was represented by a dot on top of a bar and a line drawing ...

Its walls are adorned with unique paintings - one depicting a line-up of men ... of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C. The paintings represent the first Maya art to be found on the walls ...

ancient fragments of painted murals line the walls. Now, scholars report, they’ve found something even more impressive: the oldest known Maya calendar. The find, published in Science Advances by ...

The preservation of the artwork surprised archaeologists, given the dwelling's shallow depth Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Maya civilisation have reported striking finds ...

exquisite art, and advances in mathematics and astronomy. One of the most remarkable achievements of the Maya was their complex calendar system. The Maya developed three types of calendars ...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — The Internet has been abuzz with rumors that the world will end - or at least be transformed - on Friday, December 21, when a 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar comes to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest known record of the Mayan calendar system. Among them was an art history professor from the University of Texas at Austin.

You might recall that the world was supposed to end back in 2012, according to some interpretations of the “end” of the Mayan calendar. Now a new interpretation is circulating that essentially ...