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 ...

Keep reading to see what can be learned from the Maya and their famous calendar system. Ancient calendars tracked time in very different ways. This is only logical, considering each civilization ...

The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...

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 ... and archaeologists last November identified an ancient brick fragment inscribed with what could be another reference ...

Dec. 21, 2012. The movie “2012” raised awareness of this date on which the ancient Mayan calendar expires. The inference is that Dec. 21 would ...

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 ...

a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone ...