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 ...

Archaeologists have found carvings in a stone staircase at the La Corona dig site in Guatemala which confirm the ‘end date’ of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. It is only the second known ...

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.

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 ...

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