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 ...

The date does, however, mark the completion of a huge 5,125-year long cycle in the ancient Maya 'Long Count' calendar. Or at least it does if one accepts the correlation between the Long Count and ...

The Maya themselves would not have seen Dec. 21 as the end of the world. But how does the Mayan calendar work, anyway?

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 ...

Open your presents early this year. Even though the world showed no signs of ending on Friday, the Mayan calendar is notoriously tricky. One German researcher says that Dec. 24th could be the big ...

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and ...

Mayan calendar reaches end, world still here December 21, 2012 / 8:31 AM EST / CBS News (CBS News) It's Dec. 21, the last day of the Mayan calendar. Since this writing, the world hasn't ended.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some say that the Mayan Calendar predicts that the end of the world is about 48 hours or so away. Most actual scientists and experts on Mayan culture call the prediction si… ...

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 ...