Understanding when, where, and how the Mesoamerican calendar developed is important because the 260-day system underlies many aspects of Maya cosmology, religion, and social life.

With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program Lost King of the Maya: In Calendar Count, students learn about and apply the Maya Long Count calendar system. Grades 6-8.

As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Maya calendar have been racing to convince people that the Maya didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year.

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest known record of the Mayan calendar system. Among them was an art history professor from the University of Texas at Austin.

The 260-day calendar system “survived not only close to 1,800 years in the Maya world before the Spanish showed up, but it persisted even more recently, since conquests . . . in some of the most ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists, including a University of Texas researcher, discovered the earliest known record of the Maya calendar system from the third century B.C. Their findings, published April ...

The Mayan calendar is notoriously tricky. Dec. 23, 2012— -- Open your presents early this year. Even though the world showed no signs of ending on Friday, the Mayan calendar is notoriously ...

“Before this, many assumed that the Maya simply borrowed an older system from other nearby cultures. Now we know they had it as early as anyone else, if not earlier,” Stuart said.

Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no ...

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 ...