With just two weeks to go to the much-anticipated date of the Mayan calendar prophecy, just what exactly did their highly acclaimed calendar system predict – are we about to witness a cataclysmic ...

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A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

Research shows Mayan calendar's doomsday date may be off by 50 to 100 years. Oct. 20, 2010— -- Doomsday believers, you might be able to breathe a sigh of relief. The much-hyped "prediction" that, ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

Does Mayan calendar really predict end of time? A flurry of reassurances. Jan. 3, 2012 — -- It sure is a good thing that the Mayan calendar says the world is going to end this year -- because at ...

This week has been a whirlwind for the Mayan people. On Monday, May 9, the tabloid newspaper Journal of Montreal reported that a Canadian teenager named William Gadoury had discovered an unexplored ...

The Mayans were a civilisation known for their architecture, mathematics and astronomical beliefs, who date back to as far as 2000BC, with many of their impressive constructions still standing in the ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...