SOURCE: Discovery News
4-16-13
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4-16-13
Mayan calendar end date confirmed
Breaking Newstags: Discovery News, Guatemala, Mayans, Mayan calendar
Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations claims.
The Long Count is a complex system of bars and dots that consists of five time units: Bak’tun (144,000 days); K’atun (7,200 days), Tun (360 days), Winal (20 days) and K’in (one day).
The days are counted from a mythological starting point....
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