Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with ... one planet,” the authors write, “the Maya astronomers who created the 819-day count envisioned it as a larger calendar ...

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire. Credit: Isabel ...

Many Maya may celebrate the beginning of the next 5,125-year cycle of the Long Count calendar just as we celebrated the new millennium. But they don’t believe the end of the world is on the horizon.

A new paper suggests that those researchers might not have been thinking long-term ... the Maya astronomers who created the 819-day count envisioned it as a larger calendar system that could ...

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally ... has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as the 819-day count. It has puzzled experts ever since.

In December 2012, the world was supposed to end — at least according to those following the 5,000-plus year Mayan Long Count calendar. In actuality, it was a pretty boring month. Some college ...

The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk'in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the "Long Count" and a ...

Mural fragments from between 200 and 300 BC with remnants of a “Seven Deer” glyph on them have been found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala. Until now, the earliest definitive Maya ...

To identify dates over longer periods of time, the Maya also used a linear “Long Count” calendar which marks the number of days since a mythical creation date which translates to August 11 ...

Named after the ancient Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, 'The Long Count' is an unsettlingly beautiful fever dream of ceremonial Mayan wind instruments, digitised datasets, machine learning, and ...