The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to ...

Characteristic of this system is the cyclical nature, with the Mayan calendar featuring three common cycles: the Long Count, Tzolk’in (260-day) and the 365-day, solar-based Haab’. Combined ...

Humans have been around on this earth for quite a while, developing different kinds of technology since the beginning. One of these technologies is the science behind keeping time and creating ...

Characteristic of this system is the cyclical nature, with the Mayan calendar featuring three common cycles: the Long Count, Tzolk’in (260-day) and the 365-day, solar-based Haab’. Combined ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

As one Maya calendar reaches the end of a cycle, we take a look at how an ancient people understood their place in the cosmos ...

"The Mayan calendar," said Dr ... their natural year did not always begin on the same calendar day. Dr. Spinden's final solution is too complicated to describe in a few words, since it rests ...

Maya farming was successful because of the accurate and detailed calendars people used. The Tzolkin calendar was also known as the Sacred calendar. It was 260 days long and it was used to keep ...