Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations claims.
The Long Count is a complex system of bars and dots that consists of five time units: Bak’tun (144,000 days); K’atun (7,200 days), Tun (360 days), Winal (20 days) and K’in (one day).
The days are counted from a mythological starting point.
The Long Count proliferated to more than 40 different centers across the Mayan lowlands between 600–900 A.D. and was used to anchor major historical events in time.
However, those historic events comprising royal successions, rituals, victories and defeats, could not be precisely ordered by date as scholars were unable to set the date of the mythical starting point.
Indeed, the Long Count system fell into disuse before European contact in the 16th century, moreover the Spanish colonizers destroyed any evidence that could have helped correlate the Maya and European calendars.
“Many solutions to the problem have been proposed, employing a variety of historical and astronomical data,” an international team of researchers led by Douglas J. Kennett, professor of environmental archaeology at Pennsylvania State University, wrote in the journal Scientific Reports.
However, “correlation constants can vary up to 1,000 years and remain controversial,” they said.
To place the Long Count dates into the European calendar in order to understand when things happened in the Maya world relative to historic events elsewhere, Kennett’s team turned to an elaborately carved wooden beam from a temple in the ancient Maya city of Tikal.
The date of the Mayan battle would work like a Rosetta stone for the chronology of the ancient civilization.
“Anything that has a Mayan date on it, we can be more certain about what the European date is,” Kennett told U.S. News & World Report.
The finding confirms that climate change played a key role in the development and demise of the ancient Maya.
It also means that the end of the 13th Mayan Bak’tun really did happen last year — without any apocalyptic effect.
“The exact date when the Bak’tun changed is open to question, but we know that it was somewhere in December,” Kennett said.
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Ummmm…. is this still relevant, with Dec 21st, 2012 having passed already?
Can you guys even read?
How do you even comment?
“Carbon-dating of a structural beam from a Guatemalan temple confirms that the Mayan Long Count calendar did end on December 2012, leaving no room for further doomsday prophecies and miscalculations claims.”
They are stating that the date has in fact passed and that there is no room for claims of correction because of misinterpretations.
I am personally not a follower of the Mayan’s prophecies.
There are serious problems in the world though that are larger than man’s abilities to solve them.
Greed,lies&lust and the resulting poverty,starvation and overpopulation to name a few…
MAYBE YOU SHOULD LEARN READ! THE MAYANS SAID 12/21/2013 TAKES YOU TO THE DARK RIFT..IT DID THEN THEY SAY THAT BOLON YORTE! THE GREAT JUDGE COMES TO JUDGE THE WORLD!
HANG IN THERE DUDE, SOON WE’LL ALL SEE WHY THE ELITES ARE BUILDING BUNKERS BY THE SCORE, WHY THE RUSSIANS NEVER STOPPED BUILDING THEIR CITY UNDER THE URALS WHEN THE COLD WAR ENDED. COMING SOON TO A PLANET YOU LIVE ON!
Another the world is going to end BS post! Get me the shovel!!!!!!
Relax guys.
Time is an illusion.
It is the physical dimension of space.
And all is created in the mind.
We don’t need the Mayan calendar to end the world, our current civilization is doing fine all by itself.
Well, I might as well throw my hat in too.
Tom Horn on page 82/3 of NEPHILIM STARGATES came to a conclusion – which having seen many instances of major upheavals in Earth’s history take almost a year after the astro-logical influence for the influence to felt here on Earth
(and you need to study quantum physics to realize what is behind this – I certainly was lost regarding astrology until that information came in… no need to lambaste me – I am just stating an observation)
and this example is no different (Tom Horn’s example). The method he came to 2012.9 is laid out for any one to go over. I am not much good at maths, so I am sure someone who knows better than I do will correct me – but 2012.9 I came to around November 24 – which fits in with so many dates in so many ‘prophecies’ (those that have come to us thanks to time portals)
Now the other thing. Two asteroids arrived the same day last year. Neither was mentioned by NASA until AFTER they had goner by. These were mentioned by both Nostradamus and Shipton for the day of December 13th. St Lucy’s Day. The day they came.
However (because we DO have a God) –
Earth had been “moved” somehow, out of their way…
In April and in June of 2011 the Mediterranean had “lost 20 minutes” each time. No matter what sort of clock or watch – 20 minutes was simply “gone”. It was on the news.
As Matthew 24:22 says
“The days will be cut short for the sake of the ELECT”… whoever they are, they must be important!
This “cutting short the days” must have moved Earth in some manner – I am no scientist and I do see the argument regarding cutting short the 24 hours in the day
God works in wonderful ways
Regarding these two asteroids – Nostradamus did say
the GOLDEN HOST IS DOING
what happened in the time of the Mayans? What does that have to do with the present? We
create our world from our own reality. We can create the end of man or create peace
collectively. As a man think in his mind, so is he and so he becomes. He always has free
will and only he can decide. The power in the mind is the power of focusing on the now.
Another idiot who thinks removing peoples comments does anything.
Repeat post:
“The days are counted from a mythological starting point.”
You can’t work out the end date of a fixed time period, if you don’t know the start date. Making your headline claim “Mayan Long Count Calendar End Date Confirmed”, complete bs.