Better grab your bucket list: There's less than 100 days left for you to finish it off -- if you believe in the Mayan apocalypse. December 21 is the end of days. Or, perhaps it's the 23rd ...

Sign up for our LI Press email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Welcome to the year of “Doomsday.” Yep that ...

In short, how exactly does the Mayan calendar work, and why to people think it foretells the end of the world? For a closer look at Mayan math and their calendar system, HowStuffWorks has an excellent ...

With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as ...

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally have been solved. Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as ...

With chatter about the Maya apocalypse intensifying as Dec. 21 approaches, you may have seen that while the ancient Maya calendar "ends" on that day, the Maya themselves would not have seen that as ...

For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex — an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data — has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

The Mayan calendar is notoriously tricky. Dec. 23, 2012— -- Open your presents early this year. Even though the world showed no signs of ending on Friday, the Mayan calendar is notoriously tricky ...

... or, B'ak'tun The Future. There's some buzz going around the web right now because some Mayan archaeologists found wall writings in the Xultun ruins in Guatemala ...