Combined, these three cycles formed what is known as the Calendar Round and which lasts for 52 haab’ (years). What was less obvious here was the somewhat obscure 819-day count that was found in ...

Mayan Calendar Round. (Source: Chichen Itza) Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the ...

The Maya calendar combines the numbers 1 through 13 with 20 words for animals, plants, or concepts. Those 20 words rotate in a set order; for instance, Deer is always followed by Rabbit, Water ...

The discovery of a clear calendar date at a Preclassical Maya site shows that ancient peoples were using the calendar around 300 B.C.

This early date indicates that this Maya divination calendar, which was also used by other pre-Columbian cultures in Mesoamerica, such as the Aztecs, has been in continuous use for at least 2,300 ...

Until now, the earliest definitive Maya calendar notation dated to the first century BC. The calendar, rooted upon observations of the movements of the sun, moon and planets, was based on a ritual ...

On the wall of a tiny structure buried under forest debris in Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered a scribe's notes about the Maya lunar calendar, which they say could be the first known ...

Until now, the earliest definitive Maya calendar notation dated to the first century BC. The calendar, rooted on observations of the movements of the sun, moon and planets, was based on a ritual ...

Earliest evidence of Maya calendar found inside Guatemalan pyramid By Reuters Published April 14, 2022, 12:47 p.m. ET ...

The calendar was among the achievements of a culture that also developed a writing system encompassing 800 glyphs, with the earliest examples also from San Bartolo. The Maya built temples ...