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 ...

The latest is the impending end of a 5,125-year cycle, known as the "Long Count," in the Mayan calendar ... party or a big event,” Arredondo Leiva explained. That seems to be where a lot ...

NASA has released a video explaining how the Mayans did not think the world would end on 21 December (NASAtelevision/YouTube) The Mayan long count calendar is coming to the end and doomsday ...

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 ...

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on ... between the two dates can be explained by the fact that the beam was taken ...

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 ...

Scientist Paolo Tagaloguin explained in his post ... Doomsday fears are sparked by the incorrect assumption that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world to occur on or around December ...

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 ...