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Jul 7, 2012 · On 10 May 2012 CE it was reported that Boston University archaeologist William Saturno and Boston University student Maxwell Chamberlain, excavating at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala, discovered a 6x6 foot room dating to 800 CE which seems conclusively to have been a calendar workshop for Maya scribes.
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Dec 20, 2011 · 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'tun,...
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It is possible that the ancient Maya set the beginning of the Long Count, so that the 13-baktun cycle would complete on the December solstice of 2012. At this time, the Sun will be crossing the Milky Way, the road of the Maya ancestors in the sky.
On 21 December 2011, the Maya town of Tapachula in Chiapas activated an eight-foot digital clock counting down the days until the end of bʼakʼtun 13. On 21 December 2012, major events took place at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.
Dec 19, 2012 · Some people are worried it will, based on an ancient Mayan calendar that comes to an end on that date. RFE/RL correspondent Eugen Tomiuc talked to leading Maya scholar and anthropologist...
Because the Mayans did not predict the end of the world, we at timeanddate.com have used the predictions of some doomsdayers to set up our countdown. Also, since the world can only end at one time, the time of the end of the world/ Mayan Calendar as shown by the Countdown is the same ( 11:11 AM UTC) for every part of the world. If you see a ...
Sep 26, 2016 · The Calendar Round cycle repeated every 52 solar years. The Calendar Round primarily measures shorter periods of time. The Maya Long Count calendar was used independently of the Calendar Round to measure huge spans of time. The smallest measurement on this calendar was a k’in, or day.
