On Friday, some say, the Maya apocalypse will arrive and the world will end. Fortunately, it won't. A bold claim, we know, but if it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for us. The space agency ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Over the past year, a steady trickle of books, articles, and film proposals has crossed my desk about world-changing events that the ancient Maya are said to have predicted for the date of December ...

Today is the final day in the 13th 144,000-day cycle of the ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar — otherwise known as the Mayan apocalypse. Nevermind that the ancient Maya never predicted an apocalypse, ...

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...

A UA professor’s presentation on Thursday discussed the ideas behind the supposed apocalypse that some feel is inevitable next month. “It’s still probably a good idea to buy Christmas presents this ...

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is ``a very Western, Christian'' concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are ``exhausted.'' If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written ...

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is “a very Western, Christian” concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.” If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off ...

If you want to see a roomful of people roll their eyes, just walk into a gathering of astronomers — or experts on ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, for that matter — and shout, “Mayan apocalypse!” ...

Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.

Facing the purported Dec. 21 Mayan Apocalypse head on, a number of dining and drinking establishments are enticing customers to eat and drink with them like there's no tomorrow. Friday, Dec. 21, is ...