A carved stone monument at El Palmar, a Maya site in the Mexican state of Campeche, carries a calendar inscription that dates ...

The stela depicts a ruler and a Jaguar god deity, showing how Maya kings used calendars for power.

A carved stone monument at El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico, records a Long Count date of 8.7.1.0.0, placing it at A.D. 180 and ...

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 ...

The oldest recorded Maya calendar date has been revealed by high-resolution 3D scanning of an ancient Campeche moonument.

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 ...

The calendar, rooted on observations of the movements of the sun, moon and planets, was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days. The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk’in, was one of several ...

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 ...

Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. A bar-and-dot symbol for the number “7” is drawn above a deer ...