"We invented this doomsday scenario," said archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor, "not the ancient Maya." How the end would come Those who believe the world will end this year have come up with ...

"The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six." But some say the Mayans knew ...

the world was supposed to end. A grain of truth — there’s usually at least a grain of truth — about the Mayan calendar (that one of its long-running cycles ended in December 2012 ...

Golden and Scherer argue the Maya collapse was less a collapse and more a gradual process, occurring in fits and starts, and for different reasons in different places. “The end of a kingdom is more ...

who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora of palaces, altars, shrines, and soaring temples, Tikal may be the premier Maya site. For over 1,100 years ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...