The Mayan long-count calendar is divided into 394 year cycles, or Baktun’s. The 13th cycle ends on December 21, 2012 and according to Erin Kerr, an educator at the Royal Ontario Museum, marks ...

A German expert says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it.

Mayan long-count values are written right to left, from smallest unit to largest unit, as b'ak'tun-k'atun-tun-winal-k'in. Values for kzolk'in and Haab' calendars are written after the long-count value ...

Mexico’s Maya heartland expects ‘cosmic dawn,’ not end of world By Mark Stevenson The Associated Press Posted December 21, 2012 1:36 am 4 min read ...

In total, the long count calendar spanned around 5,125 years. William Saturno, Maya expert, told National Geographic that this is similar to when a car from the 1960s reaches 99,999 miles, its ...

Through his interpretation of the Scriptures and because the 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan long calendar ends on Friday 21 December, the Dutch evangelical Christian is ready for a second flood of ...