Maya calendar

Many scholars have wondered why the Maya calendar was so complex.

How did the hubbub surrounding the Maya calendar get started?

"What happens is that our expectations and fears get projected on the Maya calendar."

But most scientists who have studied the Maya calendar say the end only represents the start of a new cycle.

Paintings on the walls, they report, appear to include calculations related to the Maya calendar.

The basic unit in the Maya calendar was one day, or k'in.

It is based on the Maya calendar, which counts the days since a date in the mythical past.

And the Maya calendar is just the start.

I have no agenda or belief in a materialist foundation for the Maya calendar.

Each of the 18 stairs that lead up to the church stands for one month of the Maya calendar year.

The ancient Maya calendar has also survived remarkably well.

The Maya calendar just starts at zero again.

That date is simply when one cycle of the Maya calendar ends and a new one begins.

You can even track the remaining time on the Maya calendar, down to the day, hour, minute and second, on the hotel's website.

Maya calendars, mythology and astrology were integrated into a single system of belief.

The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths.

The Maya calendar and writing system were not the only ones in Mesoamerica-or even the earliest.

"There was a lot more to the Maya calendar than just 13 baktuns," Stuart observed.

It serves as a tribute to the Maya calendar turnover on Dec.

A b'ak'tun is a megacycle of the Maya calendar.

Maya calendar calculations appear in wall paintings in Guatemala.

The precise day or hour of the Maya calendar turnover doesn't matter all that much to Witschey.

The Maya calendar, connected to networks of sacrificial shrines, is fundamental for ritual life.

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Maya calendar.

Over time, the idea snowballed into a belief by some that the Maya calendar had predicted the Earth's destruction.