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NY1
| 1 year ago
Call it Maya 2K, the hype equivalent to Y2k, when the Mayan Calendar enters a new cycle on December 21. "It's hard to say that it's going to be the end of the world because Mayan people are not prophets. Our Mayan people believe, a new generation is...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
May 13, 2012 Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room apparently was a workshop used by scribes...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
And it shall come to pass that when the 13th baktun comes to an end, so will the world. Everything, even the entombed red-cinnabar-coated kings, shall be destroyed in an apocalypse. So it has been foretold and so many believe by the ancient Maya...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
National Geographic The painted figure of a man possibly a scribe who once lived in the house built by the ancient Maya is illuminated through a doorway to the dwelling, in northeastern Guatemala. Archeologists working among the ruins of a 9th...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
A Mayan calendar was found deep in the Guatemalan rainforest. But this ancient Mayan calender refutes claims that the world will end Dec.
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Tyrone Turner/National Geographic/Handout A small Mayan chamber having walls painted with the only known Maya murals and an oldest known Maya calendar found in the Maya ruins of Xultun in Guatemala debunks 21 December 2012 doomsday myth, according to...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada is looking to students from Moscow with a Russian Orthodox background to work as missionaries among Maya Indians...Color added for visibility.) The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
It was a logical extension of what America is supposed to be. It grew directly out of this difference in visions: Are we a country that includes everybody and give everybody a shot and treats everybody fairly?" — President Barack Obama to a Hollywood...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago. The walls reveal the oldest known...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
The calendar documents cycles of the moon and, apparently, those of Venus and Mars as well, Boston University's William Saturno and University of Texas archaeologist David Stuart told a press conference. The find, to be detailed in this week's issue...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
EDT An archaeologist with help from the National Geographic Society discovers a never-before-seen Maya calendar in Guatemala that may dispel the myth predicting end times in 2012. More videos in:
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
I read with a great deal of dismay last week that a House of Lords committee proposed an overall hik... Suggested Topics Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest calendar of the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. It was written on the...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
On the wall of a tiny structure buried under forest debris in Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered a scribe's notes about the Maya lunar calendar, which they say could be the first known records by an official chronicler of this ancient...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Maugh II, Special to the Los Angeles Times In the remote northeastern corner of Guatemala, archaeologists have found what appears to be the 9th century workplace of a city scribe, an unusual dwelling adorned with magnificent pictures of the king and...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers of good calendars. And now we have one of their timekeepers workrooms to prove it. In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala report the discovery of a small building whose walls display not only...
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io9
| 1 year ago
This is the oldest Maya Calendar Ever Discovered For years, archaeologists have referred to an set of ancient texts known as the Maya codices to study that ancient civilization's relationship with astronomy and time. But now, a team of archaeologists...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
Inside, two of the three standing masonry walls were decorated with a faded but still impressive mural, including a painting of a seated king with a scepter and wearing blue feathers. It seemed that, like the Alec Guinness character in the 1958 movie...
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Acushnet Community News
| 1 year ago
Archaeologists claim they have unearthed the oldest known Maya calendar, but, to the disappointment of doomsday forecasters, they say it shows no signs the ancient people thought the world would end in 2012. Following the trail of looters in Xultun a...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
A set of symbols found in an uncovered workroom where Mayan scribes or priests performed calculations suggests the Mayan calendar extends nearly 1,600 years beyond 2012. Archaeologists exploring Mayan ruins deep in the Guatemalan jungle say they have...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Inside, two of the three standing masonry walls were decorated with a faded but still impressive mural, including a painting of a seated king with a scepter and wearing blue feathers. It seemed that, like the Alec Guinness character in the 1958 movie...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Johnson, Globe Staff In the rainforest-covered ruins of a Mayan city dating back more than 1,100 years, a Boston University-led excavation has turned up the oldest evidence of that civilization's mastery of astronomy -- a precise lunar calendar...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Four long numbers on the north wall of the ruined house relate to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars; the dates may stretch some 7,000 years into the future. These are the first calculations Maya...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
National Geographic) Ninth-century hieroglyphs painted by a Mayan scribe in Guatemala are records of lunar and perhaps planetary cycles, forming the oldest known Mayan calendar. The city of Xultun was discovered almost a century ago in the remote...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists The preservation of the artwork surprised archaeologists, given the dwelling's shallow depth Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
One wall of the Mayan house is adorned with paintings of men wearing mitres, white loin cloths and medallions. Photograph: Tyrone Turner/National Geographic Ancient inscriptions on the walls of a looted house in the Guatemalan jungle are the oldest...
