The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

They used these calendars for farming – perhaps that ... Yax Mutal' was one of the most powerful cities of the ancient Maya. You are now standing in Palenque, which the ancient Mayas called ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...

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 ...