Mayan calendar math is also somewhat difficult to interpret. It is based on a 260-day ceremonial cycle, the 365-day orbit of the Sun, the 584-day cycle of Venus and the 780-day cycle of Mars.

Mayan elders from Mexico, Belize and Guatemala have been dispatched to present a slightly contrary view of doomsday. "A better world is possible!" is how one elder put it.

The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk’in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the “Long Count ...

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This is the ridiculously hyped armageddon since the Mayan calendar. In fact, it looks worse than the Mayan disaster. Look, this, as you say, can be solved in a day, in an hour ...

Mexico. Ever since I returned from Mayan Holidaze 2011, I had been counting down the days when I could go back – to both Mayan Holidaze and Mexico at large. And I’m not alone. Last year at ...

Mayan calendar now predicts doomsday could be next week. Updated: Jun. 15, ... For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days/365 days ...

The year was 2012 and conspiracy theorists far and wide thought the end of the world was near. Due to readings of the Mayan calendar, theorists expected the world to cease to exist on December ...

A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya ...