"The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six." But some say the Mayans knew ...

Golden and Scherer argue the Maya collapse was less a collapse and more a gradual process, occurring in fits and starts, and for different reasons in different places. “The end of a kingdom is more ...

America, in other words, is fertile soil for End Times entrepreneurs. "We invented this doomsday scenario," said archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor, "not the ancient Maya." How the end would come ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

the world was supposed to end. A grain of truth — there’s usually at least a grain of truth — about the Mayan calendar (that one of its long-running cycles ended in December 2012 ...