With rumors of a Mayan apocalypse making the rounds online and at the water cooler, when do we know the world is out of danger from the various astronomical and other cataclysms claimed by some to ...

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 ...

World News; In Mexico, Mayan doomsday speculation ends with hope of a new beginning . Updated: ; Dec. 20, 2012, 11:45 p.m. | Published: ; Dec. 20, 2012, 10:45 p.m.

The ancient Mayan long-count calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, and some people believe that this date will usher in a new spiritual era, or even doomsday.

In the long count calendar, time is divided into ever longer phases. A baktun represents 144,000 days, or around 394 years. The Mayan calendar began around 5,125 years ago.

If that word sounds familiar, it's because Dec. 21, 2012, on our calendar marks the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. In other words, it's the day the count will read 13.0 ...

He came to the most easterly point in Mexican territory to soak up rays at sunup and the day the Mayan long-count calendar changed — an event occurring once every 5,125 years and a date hyped ...

Characteristic of this system is the cyclical nature, with the Mayan calendar featuring three common cycles: the Long Count, Tzolk’in (260-day) and the 365-day, solar-based Haab’.

The Maya Long Count system uses a base 20 number system. Review the difference between a base 10 system, which students are familiar with, and a base 20 system.

Around the world this week TV stations, DJs and even some politicians are using December 21, 2012 – the final day of the Mayan long count calendar – as an excuse for quirky doomsday specials ...

The Mayan long count calendar is coming to the end and doomsday theorists believe this signals the end of the world. However experts insist the end of the Baktun cycle, on 21 December 2012, is in ...

When the summer solstice arrives Wednesday, it will mark six months until the winter solstice on Dec. 21, when, according to some people’s reading of the Mayan Long Count calendar, ...