With chatter about the Mayan apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Mayan calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as ...
The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...
How worried should we be about all this end of the world hooey having to do with the Mayan calendar? It sounds flaky to me. It was wholly a pleasure to hear from you, but I would admonish that you ...
My interview with anthropologist Geoffrey Braswell of the University of California in San Diego, an expert on Mayan culture, had just been published on RFE/RL's website. The story was part of our ...
The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ancient prophecy. As researchers keep pointing out, the real story is less ...