Archaeologists working at the ancient Maya site of El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico, have discovered what may be the earliest ...

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 ...

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’s ...

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 may be ...

A woman walks pass as Honduran carpenter Alejandro David Espinoza Salinas carves in stone a Mayan sculpture amid the quarantine ordered by the Honduran government to help curb the spread of the novel ...

Discover what your Maya sign could mean through the ancient calendar system and how it connects to modern astrology ...

The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest. Subscribe to read this story ...

The ancient Maya developed one of the most sophisticated calendar systems in human history. Long before modern calendars, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A recalculation of the Maya calendar does not suggest the world is ...

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

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the tricky ...