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 ...

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 ...

Was the Mayan calendar ever changed or did they keep the same system through the milennia? Makes me wonder what the longest continuously used calendar system was. I think the Jewish calendar predates ...

April 14 (UPI) --The oldest evidence of the Maya calendar has been excavated at San Bartolo, Guatemala, found among fragments of painted murals. Acording to a new study, two fragments with a "7 deer" ...

An undated artists reconstruction of the ceremonial structures dating to about 200 BC to 300 BC at the San Bartolo Preclassic ancient Maya site in Guatemala where evidence was found for the earliest ...

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 ...

Two pieces of an ancient wall may preserve the earliest evidence of the Maya calendar. The fragments are decorated with a dot and line above a deer head – representing one of the dates from the ...

A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one ...