Three years ago, Aveni’s book, “The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012” was published. Not surprisingly, it is getting renewed attention. At the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and ...

If you want to see a roomful of people roll their eyes, just walk into a gathering of astronomers — or experts on ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, for that matter — and shout, “Mayan apocalypse!” ...

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of ...

Survival is no joke for disaster preparedness companies. Dec. 20, 2012 — -- While many people are paying little attention to the Mayan prediction of the end of the world on Friday, businesses ...

Much has been made about December 21, 2012 by doomsday prophets, busily proclaiming that the end of the world is upon us. But archaeologists and scholars of Maya culture explain that the mystical date ...