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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya …

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Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper.The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods.Most of the codices were destroyed by conquistadors and Catholic …

The Maya civilization (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) of the Mesoamerican people is known by its ancient temples and glyphs.Its Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.It is also noted for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.. The Maya civilization developed in the Maya Region, an area that …

The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolkʼin. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haabʼ to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabʼ, called the Calendar Round.The Calendar Round is still in use by many groups in the Guatemalan …

Of course, the predictions did not come true—just like hundreds of other doomsday prophecies that fizzled out in the past. Not a Mayan Invention. The Mayan calendar dates back to at least the 5th century BCE and it is still in use in some Mayan communities today.