according to one cartoon, the Mayans “ran out of stones to carve on.” Already we have been seeing the effects of these earth changes predicted by the Mayan calendar, namely, more frequent ...

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?

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 ...

The glyph found on the mural fragments for "7 Deer," one of the calendar's 260 named days, consisted of the ancient Maya writing for the number seven over the outline of a deer's head. University ...

Organize students in groups. Distribute copies of the "Calendar Count" student handout. Tell students they will be calculating the date of their birth in the Maya Long Count calendar system.

The date marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on the Long Count calendar developed by the Maya, the ancient civilization known for its advanced understanding of astronomy and for the great cities ...

Two of those fragments form the earliest known record of a Maya calendar, created between 300 and 200 B.C. The fragments depict the date of “7 Deer” from the 260-day sacred calendar common ...