Maya Archaeologists Unearth New 2012 Monument

[Lt-Col A. Tack]

June 28, 2012
Kathryn Hobgood Ray

Archaeologists working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala have discovered a 1,300-year-old-year Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called “end date” of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012.

The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, was announced today at the National Palace in Guatemala.

More: http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_062812.cfm

[seraosha]

The woowoos will use this to bolster their nuttiness.

[JCR]

So it was political propaganda like "this is a great time of change just like 2012"?

[Henry's Fork]

So it was political propaganda like "this is a great time of change just like 2012"?

yup more of that "hope and change" bullshat.

[JCR]

America = hoping and changing since 700 AD

[Henry's Fork]

america = hoping and changing since 700 ad

bahahahahahahah

[Rilence]

The woowoos will use this to bolster their nuttiness.

It contradicts them.

[IraGlacialis]

It contradicts them.

The fact that the Mayan calendar doesn't account for leaps years already contradicts them.
In any case, cool find.

[Tropical_ulcer]

how sad to think of so many info about old civilizations lost by looters,especially from one of the most misterious

[Sarig]

The fact that the Mayan calendar doesn't account for leaps years already contradicts them.
In any case, cool find.

No, it doesn't.

Because the people who found out how it correlated with our calendar in the 19th century *did* account for leap years.

The fact that the mayans had a cyclic understanding of time, and not linear as we mostly have - and the fact that our calendar ends on the 31st of december every year however, does contradict them.

[IraGlacialis]

Because the people who found out how it correlated with our calendar in the 19th century *did* account for leap years.

The fact that the mayans had a cyclic understanding of time, and not linear as we mostly have - and the fact that our calendar ends on the 31st of december every year however, does contradict them.

Ah, my bad then. Second point is interesting though.

On another note, I wonder if anybody has made a new Mayan calender just for kicks and giggles.

[tercio67]

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On another note, I wonder if anybody has made a new Mayan calender just for kicks and giggles.

New date for the world to end may be a while yet...

Archaeologists, excavating the ninth-century Maya complex of Xultun in Guatemala, say they have found what may have been a workspace for the town’s scribe. Paintings on the walls, they report, appear to include calculations related to the Maya calendar.

The researchers, writing in today’s edition of the journal Science, say the calculations project 7,000 years into the future. There’s no hint that the calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, despite popular belief.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technolo...2012-doomsday/