Some believe the world is coming to an end Friday — on 12/21/12 — which is when an important phase on the ancient calendar of the Mayan people terminates. Mayans don’t buy it. At least the ...

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 ...

A CONSPIRACY theorist claims that the ancient Mayan ... calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 - hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.” The space agency previously explained ...

scientist and Fullbright scholar Paolo Tagaloguin explained that the Mayan predictions could still prove accurate due to our shift to the Gregorian calendar. As Taglaloguin said in now-deleted ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

Some conspiracy theorists use ancient texts like the Mayan Calendar or predictions made by the 16th-century French astrologer Nostradamus to support their wild theories. Conspiracy theorists ...

And none of this will have anything to do with the ancient Mayan calendar," John Carlson, the director of the Centre for Archaeoastronomy at the University of Maryland explained to the Guardian ...

Astronomer Phil Plait explained on SyFy ... because the 21 December 2012 date was converted from the Maya calendar to the Gregorian one in the first place. "So there's no reason to even bring ...

"There is nothing here that talks about the end of the mayan calendar. Nothing here says ... German archaeologist Sven Gronemeyer explained that for the Mayas, Baktun 13th marked an important ...

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 ...