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2012 phenomenon. A date inscription in the Maya Long Count on the east side of Stela C from Quirigua showing the date for the last Creation. It is read as 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Kumku and is usually correlated as 11 or 13 August, 3114 BC on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Peter Mathews (born 12 June 1951 in Canberra, Australia [citation needed]) is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist . He was a professor at the University of Calgary, and is Co Director of the Naachtun Archaeology Project. [ 1] Between 1979 and 1986 he taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. [ 2]
December 21 – 2012 phenomenon: End of 13th b'ak'tun in the Mayan calendar, supposed end of the world according to new age beliefs. Festivities took place to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in ...
Mayan civilization itself ended hundreds of years ago, but the calendar ticked. The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we've been learning ...
Mayan languages are spoken by at least six million Maya people, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvadorand Honduras. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name,[1][notes 2]and Mexico recognizeseight within its territory. The Mayan language family is one of the best-documented and most studied in the Americas ...
Maya is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia . The town's name is a result of the shortening of the Indigenous Australian word for a nearby spring, Pocanmaya. The name was first recorded by surveyors in 1876. The town originated as a railway siding on the Mullewa to Wongan Hills that was planned in 1913.
Catalog # (SE5000) 9535. An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit between Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21, 2012, [ 1][ 2][ 3] with a magnitude of 0.9439. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
9:20 PM EST: Europe and its ancient capitals are safe to be destroyed at a later date by austerity, unemployment, unforgivable debt loads, and the disappearance of the EU. Three quarters of the ...