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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 ...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — The Internet has been abuzz with rumors that the world will end - or at least be transformed - on Friday, December 21, when a 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar comes to ...

It’s all based on the end of the 5,125-year-old Maya Long Count calendar. Two Albion College professors and a guest speaker are hoping to put it all into perspective and possibly debunk some of ...

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 ...

It's true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012. That day brings to a close the 13th Bak ...