President of Honduras Visits Penn Museum to Join in Opening Celebration of World Premiere Exhibition MAYA 2012: Lords of TimePorfirio Lobo Sosa, President of the Republic of Honduras, joins Penn ...

Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it?

While downplaying Mayan theories that 2012 will be the end of the world as we know it, Mexico's archeology institute admitted Thursday that it found another reference to the alleged 2012 apocalypse on ...

But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it. “If we want to honor and respect how the Maya ...

With rumors of a Mayan apocalypse making the rounds online and at the water cooler, when do we know the world is out of danger from the various astronomical and other cataclysms claimed by some to ...

December 21, 2012, marks a rather important day in the ancient Maya calendar. Some doomsayers say it will mark the end of time. Others say the day merely signifies the start of a new calendar cycle.

A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Maya calendar. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world to end on that date, researchers said. "This text talks ...

(Phys.org)—December 21, 2012 is not the end of the world. Even the ancient Maya themselves did not think so. The date does, however, mark the completion of a huge 5,125-year long cycle in the ancient ...