June 19, 2013

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Lost City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth

Three-dimensional map of the buried observatory at the Guatemalan Maya site of Holtun. Illustration credit: Melvin Rodrigo Guzman Piedrasanta.

The ancient Maya city of Head of Stone—a hundred buildings buried under rain forest—has emerged via 3-D mapping.

The Mayan Calendar Facts, Theories and Prophecies

A modern-day depiction of the Mayan Calendar

Experts have deduced that the Mayan Long Count Calendar began on August 11 or 13, 3114 BC. Based on the hieroglyphs on the calendar, it has been calculated that the calendar ends on either December 21 or 23, 2012.