[Images: Mayan Calendar Carvings] Each uinal is thus a block of 20 days. The k'in position then picks back up, counting up to that 20, which then gets added to the uinal.

If you thought 365 days was a long time, try resetting your calendar every 18,980 days instead. 52 solar years make up the longest cycle of the Mayan calendar – a complex and ancient system that ...

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, becoming only the second known document to do so. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world ...

Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 — hence the predicted doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012.” ...

Get your calendars out, because there may be a correction to make as a growing list of skeptics – including the Minneapolis professor who re-arranged the zodiac – say the end of Mayan calendar ...

The Mayan calendar count begins in 3,114 BC and is divided into approximately 394-year periods. Mayans held the 13 sacred, and the13th period ends on December 21, 2012.

Mayan shamans take part in a ceremony on December 21, 2012, celebrating the end of the Mayan calendar, at the Tikal archaeological site, north of Guatemala City.

Even the ancient Maya themselves did not think so. The date does, however, mark the completion of a huge 5,125-year long cycle in the ancient Maya 'Long Count' calendar.

The Maya, who lived in Central America between A.D. 250 and 900, had a cyclical calendar that ran approximately one human lifetime, or 52 years (life was shorter back then).

The Mayan calendar began around 5,125 years ago. According to their mythology, that was the time when this world was created. But they also believed that other worlds had existed previously.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known Mayan calendar ever discovered — and it further shows that all this December 21, 2012, apocalypse talk is a bunch of hooey.