That's what the Mayan carvings are trying to accomplish, he said. How the Long Count Calendar works The Long Count Calendar may not predict doomsday, but it is good at covering long periods of time.

That's what the Mayan carvings are trying to accomplish, he said. How the Long Count Calendar works The Long Count Calendar may not predict doomsday, but it is good at covering long periods of time.

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 ...

That's what the Maya carvings are trying to accomplish, he said. How the Long Count Calendar works The Long Count Calendar may not predict doomsday, but it is good at covering long periods of time.

"there's no evidence to suggest the Mayans believed the end of their Long Count calendar would spell doomsday." The Maya, who lived in Central America between A.D. 250 and 900, had a cyclical ...

and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an international team of researchers. The Maya are famous for their complex ...

December 21, 2012 will mark the end of the 5,125-year-long Maya long-count calendar. While sensationalists say the calendar's conclusion will precipitate the end of the world, scholars who study ...

The Mayan Long Count calendar is divided into bak'tuns, or 144,000-day cycles that begin at the Maya creation date. The winter solstice of 2012 (Dec. 21) is the last day of the 13th bak'tun ...

At least that’s what some interpreters of the ancient Maya calendar believed. They noted that the Maya Long Count calendar seemed to be running out of days, and would end on Dec. 21, 2012. Various ...

MERIDA, Mexico Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic than cosmic, the punch line of ...

might take a few more days. The basics, of course, involve what is known as the Mayan long-count calendar that supposedly wrapped up a 5,000-year-or-so cycle on or around Dec. 21. Some doomsayers ...