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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012, the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Learn about the Maya origins, New Age interpretations, doomsday theories, cultural influence and scholarly responses to this phenomenon.
Dec 20, 2011 · The Maya long-count calendar ends on December 21, 2012, but that does not mean the world will end, experts say. Learn about the Maya culture, their prophecies, and the myths and facts behind the 2012 apocalypse.
2012: Doomsday: Directed by Nick Everhart. With Cliff De Young, Dale Midkiff, Ami Dolenz, Danae Nason. Four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to a temple in the heart of Mexico on December 21, 2012. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day.
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- Nick Everhart
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- The Ancient Maya
- The Calendar Round
- The Long Count Calendar
- The End of The World?
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Of course, there is no concrete evidence that the Maya–a diverse group of indigenous people who lived in parts of present-day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and northwestern Honduras from about 2000 B.C.–could truly predict the future. They did, however, develop one of the most sophisticated and complex civilizations in the Western Hemisphe...
The first Mayan calendar, known as the Calendar Round system, was based on two overlapping annual cycles: a 260-day sacred year and a 365-day secular year that named 18 months with 20 days each. (Five “unlucky” unnamed days were tacked on at year’s end.) Under this system, each day was assigned four pieces of identifying information: a day number a...
But because the Calendar Round measured time in an endless loop, it was a bad way to fix events in an absolute chronology or in relationship to one another over a long period. For this job, a priest working in about 236 B.C. devised another system: a calendar that he called the Long Count. The Long Count system identified each day by counting forwa...
The Mayawho developed the Long Count calendar believed the end of one cycle would simply signal the beginning of another. According to this logic, a new Grand Cycle would start on December 22, 2012. However, some people in the U.S. and Europe came to believe that the calendar would not reset itself. Instead, they said, the end of the cycle would br...
Learn about the Maya Long Count calendar and how some people believed it predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012. Find out why the Maya themselves did not share this apocalyptic view and how scientists debunked the doomsday theories.
May 11, 2012 · Unprecedented paintings and calculations have emerged from under the Guatemalan jungle—including evidence against the 2012 "doomsday myth."
Dec 18, 2012 · That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, thanks to the internet, Hollywood and an ever-eager press corps. Recent hurricanes, unrest in the...
Jan 5, 2012 · Tales of the apocalypse in 2012 abound — ranging from a mysterious planet that will smash into Earth, to a huge, catastrophic solar storm — but researchers who have examined the science behind...
