— -- 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 ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

The world will not end Dec. 21, or the default date of Dec. 23, according to a newly discovered Mayan calendar. If an incomplete ancient Mayan calendar, enthusiastically embraced by cultists and those ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

Long before clocks or written calendars existed, ancient farming communities faced a life-or-death problem; they needed to ...

CU Linguistics, Anthropology, and CNAIS welcome Richard A. Sandoval of Metropolitan State University of Denver for a lecture exploring how Ancient Maya scribes encoded time, cosmology, and social ...