"It was like finding the Hope Diamond in Peoria instead of New York," said Braswell, who led the dig that uncovered a large piece of carved jade once belonging to an ancient Maya king. "We would ...

you may have seen that while the ancient Mayan calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as the end of the world. But how does the Mayan calendar work, anyway?

Back in 2012, December 21 was heralded as the date that the world would end by conspiracy theorists who were using the Mayan calendar to try and make sense of an ancient prediction. NASA said ...

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, becoming only the second known document to do so. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world ...

you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as the end of the world. But how does the Maya calendar work, anyway?

The reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong ... to be left disappointed and dirty due to the lack of sanitation at ancient Mayan pyramids. Tagaloguin, a master’s student in plant sciences ...

Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans ... the Maya astronomers who created the 819-day count envisioned it as a larger calendar system that could be ...

Pre-modern societies watched the sky and created cosmographies, maps of the skies that provided information for calendars and ... across the lands of the ancient Maya. This follows the October ...

But, according to the study published in Ancient Mesoamerica, the cycles in the Maya calendar cover a much larger timeframe than scholars previously thought. “Although prior research has sought ...

The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...

Before the Spanish colonised Central America in the 16th century, the ancient Maya were one of the most sophisticated civilisations in the Western Hemisphere. They developed a complex calendar ...