Archaeologist William Saturno recently discovered a new Mayan calendar that debunks the myth that the world will end in December 2012.
According to LiveScience, the discovery was made in 2010 by one of Saturno’s undergraduate students during a field study of Xultun, an ancient Mayan city in Gautemala. The student noticed black and red paint in a trench that was most likely dug by looters. Saturno decided to investigate the room that the looters had failed to penetrate.
Saturno was pleasantly surprised to find a well-preserved painting of a Mayan king and his subjects. On the east wall of the room was a set of hieroglyphs that would later be analyzed as a new Mayan calendar. It’s been suggested than an ancient Mayan scribe must have used this room to work and wrote the calender on the wall as a reference. [Read more...]




