Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient calendar system predict solar flares? This fascinating theory will be delved into, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest known record of the Mayan calendar system. Among them was an art history professor from the University of Texas at Austin. The team ...

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 ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

The Maya used "sign language" on an altar around 1,300 years ago, and these signs may represent important dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. "This is the oldest text where, to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — University of Texas at Austin researchers discovered evidence in Guatemala for the earliest known Maya calendar. According to a UT release, the researchers found and pieced together ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic ads, and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

A painting of a deer on a 2,200-year-old wall fragment from Guatemala could be the earliest-known evidence of the Maya calendar 1. Researchers excavated a Maya site in lowland Guatemala called San ...

Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago. The murals were found in a ...

Read the student handout to familiarize yourself with the calculations that students will make. Organize students in groups. Distribute copies of the "Calendar Count" student handout. Tell students ...