The Mayan calendar of 365 days is called Haab. It is divided into 18 months of 20 days, each with a period of 5 days left over at the end of the year. This short 5 day month Uayeb was often seen ...

Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world would end all based on this: the Mayan calendar. Well, it’s been more than a decade since ...

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The drawings are also unusual for a Maya document, combining styles of the Mesoamerican Mixtec people with Toltec attire. The Toltec were often hailed by the Aztecs as ancestors, and their art ...

Aspen Art Museum's new festival-retreat AIR has tapped German filmmaker Werner Herzog to lead its series of keynotes and ...

Maya sculpture at the site of Los Abuelos, Petén, Guatemala. UAXACTÚN, GUATEMALA—CNN Science reports that an international team of archaeologists discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Maya city ...

The Mayan civilization arose around 2,000 BC and reached its height between 400 and 900 AD, predominantly in modern-day Mexico and Guatemala. During its height, people built temples, roads ...

Also, the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center will celebrate Pennsylvania German Day, and the Allentown Band will perform its annual Sousa concert.

Maya Gurantz — the Plague Archives: A site-specific installation comprising multiple video projections; a dense collection of archival material on the social, cultural and political histories of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Amazingly Accurate Calendar System of the Maya Indians ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 133 No. 5 (November 1925), p. 312 doi ...