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Over 65 years, the France-based Annecy fest has emerged as the world capital of animation — not in terms of production, but ...

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 ...

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire. Credit: Isabel ...

Many Maya may celebrate the beginning of the next 5,125-year cycle of the Long Count calendar just as we celebrated the new millennium. But they don’t believe the end of the world is on the horizon.

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 ...

Guatemala City - The most precise and sophisticated calendar ever created is only one of the legacies of the ancient Maya, who also left their mark on the arts, architecture and cooking, experts say.

Night of contact with the stars The ancient site of Chichen Itza, with its 365-step pyramid, will play host on 21 December to an event dubbed "The End of the Long Count Mayan Calendar". A ceremony ...

The Maya had three other calendars in addition to this religious divination calendar called the Tzolk’in, including a solar calendar, a lunar calendar, and the Long Count calendar which ...