It's a bright summer day at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Outside, in the sprawling front plaza rimmed by palm and willow trees, young couples cuddle by the steps, vendors ...

If the ancient Mayan calendar is no better at portending doomsday down to the hour (modern-day Maya don't even believe it themselves), then Dec. 21 is destined to join this random list of ...

The final calendar was the Long Count Calendar — the recording method that has caused all of the doomsday brouhaha of 2012. On Dec. 21 (approximately), the calendar completes a major cycle ...

Some believe the world is coming to an end Friday – on 12/21/12 – which is when an important phase on the ancient calendar of the ... collected links to all the doomsday articles and videos ...

The Mayan Doomsday prediction derives from calculations based on calendar cycles. However, the link to the Mayan calendar itself is tenuous because the original prophecy involved a planet called ...

It's true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012. That day brings to a close the 13th Bak ...

(Watch: Mysterious Maya Calendar and Mural Uncovered.) That should be enough to soothe Maya-inspired worries about doomsday scenarios. But what about other potential agents of catastrophe ...

Author DBC Pierre travels through Mexico on a personal odyssey to recount the fate of the Aztec civilization. In this extract, he investigates the unfolding of a legendary doomsday prophecy.