Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the world.

Indeed, the story of how one lone scholar from the Soviet Union managed to convince the wider world that he had cracked the code of the Maya without actually setting foot in the Americas is now ...

So some people - including new Downton Abbey star Shirley MacLaine - believe, based on what the ancient Maya prophesied. Actually, they didn’t. May 2012 is simply when the Maya stopped ...

With each entry labeled in numeric code, English, Maya, and other indices, said Macri, it is the only current Maya database to use visual images. So far the project has amassed over 40,000 glyph ...

Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock ...