The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

A recalculation of the Maya calendar does not suggest the world is going to end this week. Reports of our impending doom surfaced after a Twitter user posed a series of tweets claiming to have ...

With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as ...

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient calendar system predict solar flares? This fascinating theory will be delved into, ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

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 calendar, one ...

Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...

Read the student handout to familiarize yourself with the calculations that students will make. Organize students in groups. Distribute copies of the "Calendar Count" student handout. Tell students ...

The calendar, rooted on observations of the movements of the sun, moon and planets, was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days. The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk’in, was one of several ...