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Ancient Mayas predict the world will end Friday if one is to believe their calendar and prophesy. Or Is it really their idea? Nobody knows for sure. Yes, Dec. 21 is supposed to mark either the end of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

A recalculation of the Maya calendar does not suggest the world is going to end this week. Reports of our impending doom surfaced after a Twitter user posed a series of tweets claiming to have ...

Doomsday theorists were once convinced the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. Apparently, the reading of the Mayan calendar was incorrect, so this is your one-week warning. A report in The New York ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASA is really sticking it to the Mayans.

The populations that flourished before ours, civilizations that thrived, were curious about what happened in nature. They put their knowledge to the test by devising artifacts that attested to their ...

Friday's numerical date is written out as 11/11/11. And for some people, that number sequence is more than a coincidence or inevitability -- it's a spiritual signal linked to 2012 Mayan prophecies of ...