Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

There are three parts to the Mayan calendar, but let’s focus on one for a moment: the Haab. This third of the calendar tracked the solar year, calculated down to 365 days. This is highly ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

The Mayan "long count" calendar progresses using a cycle of approximately 394 years known as a baktun; the calendar ends after the 13th baktun, which closes on Dec. 21 of this year. A stone tablet ...

"The Mayan calendar," said Dr. Spinden ... difficulty arose from the fact that the Mayans never dropped leap year days; consequently, their natural year did not always begin on the same calendar ...

A grain of truth — there’s usually at least a grain of truth — about the Mayan calendar (that one of its long-running cycles ended in December 2012), interpreted by New Age quackery ...