Oldest Known Mayan Astronomical Calendar Stuns Scientists – TIME.
Archaeologists, excavating the ninth-century Maya complex of Xultun in Guatemala, say they have found what may have been a workspace for the town’s scribe. Paintings on the walls, they report, appear to include calculations related to the Maya calendar.
The researchers, writing in today’s edition of the journal Science, say the calculations project 7,000 years into the future. There’s no hint that the calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, despite popular belief.
“Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?” said Anthony Aveni at Colgate University, a scholar of Maya astronomy and a co-author of the paper. “You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on.”
Shhhhhh! Not so loud! There are still alot of fools being seperated from their money on this deal. Wanna by an underground condo?
I was always under the impression that it wasn’t necessarily going to end on 12/21, just was the end of their “5th sun cycle” (or something) and with every cycle end came a great change. My info that I’m vaguely remembering from a book I read a few years ago could be old or I could be remembering it wrong. I am a little curious to see how people start acting as it gets a little closer to December, if it’ll be like a Y2K thing. Thanks for posting this, I plan on looking more into it 🙂