The excavations, which were funded by National Geographic, have already revealed details about the Mayan calendar and the lives of the inhabitants which were previously unknown.. One wall of the ...

Four long numbers on the north wall of the ruined house relate to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars; the dates stretch some 7,000 years into the ...

Archaeologists report a striking find in Guatemala of the first Maya art on a wall, as well as the oldest known Maya calendar.

The oldest-known version of the Mayan calendar has been discovered on a wall among lavish murals in the Guatemalan rainforest.

Archaeologist William Saturno from Boston University compares Mayan calendars to a car's odometer. "If we're driving a car," Satruno says, "we don't anticipate that at 100,000 miles the car will ...

One Xultun wall section contains bar-and-dot numbers in columns that resemble astronomical tables in the Dresden Codex. ... The number 13 held special significance for organizing the Maya calendar.

"The wall is covered in numbers and this is something that really got our attention very early on," he says. "This is an unusual thing about the Xultun mural." Stuart says some of the numbers are ...

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room ...

The Maya calendar does not predict the end of time at the year 2012, as some New Age prophets have argued. In fact, the murals register future time stretching far beyond 2012.

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room ...