November 18, 2009-Roland Emmerich’s special effects extravaganza 2012 has taken up the baton in the latest leg of humanity’s millennia-spanning race toward the End of Days. But for many, it’s running ...

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the ...

Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that ...

My friends Nancy and David Orr own a gorgeous bed-and-breakfast in San Cristóbal, Mexico, called the Casa Felipe Flores – and you better book early if you want a room this year. San Cristóbal sits in ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . If you still need something to panic about, Tulane University’s Marc Zender, who led the expedition, says that the Mayan calendar still begins a new ...

Only two Maya monuments refer to the end of the 13th bak'tun, which will occur on December 21 (or 23) this year. Part of the controversy over what will happen on that day stems from the inscription on ...

Archaeologists and astronomers have thoroughly debunked everything about the doomsday myth: The Maya never expected that the world would end when their Long Count calendar rolled over to the next ...

Doomsday theorists were once convinced the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. Apparently, the reading of the Mayan calendar was incorrect, so this is your one-week warning. A report in The New York ...