The Maya themselves would not have seen Dec. 21 as the end of the world. But how does the Mayan calendar work, anyway?

Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and ...

Andrea Dailey 2012 The Maya shared our culture's fascination with calendar mile-markers and would have likely considered the date important, Witschey told LiveScience.

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, becoming only the second known document to do so. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world ...

Carbon-dating of an ancient beam from a Guatemalan temple may help end a century-long debate about the Mayan calendar, say anthropologists.

Put away your “The End is Neigh” signs, all of you apocalypse predictors. That 2012 date you thought the ancient Mayan calendar set for the Big Adios appears to be bogus. Archeologists working ...