The Mayan Apocalypse has been perpetuated in pop culture – in movies and through splashy tabloid headlines – even though it’s been widely debunked in archeological circles. In Mexico and Central ...

According to popular understanding, the Maya apocalypse is set for December 21. And despite the fact that only 2% of Americans actually believe that the world will end tomorrow, there has been a ...

Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Maya predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date ...

The impending apocalypse may not be so close after all. At least that's according to a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a ...

A University of Texas art history professor has deciphered a reference in Maya hieroglyphs to the so-called doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012, and has found that there is no prediction about the end of ...

Archaeologists and astronomers have thoroughly debunked everything about the doomsday myth: The Maya never expected that the world would end when their Long Count calendar rolled over to the next ...

Last day of 5,125-year Mayan calendar arrives sans apocalypse Tourism officials thankful for the hoopla Maya hope for better times ISLA MUJERES, Mexico — Alfredo Izquierdo dressed in white and stood ...

Earlier this year Reuters reported that 10 percent of people believe the Maya 2012 phenomenon could signal the end of the world. Speculation surrounding the advent of the apocalypse has gained enough ...

(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 ...