John Scillitani does not want to be seen as a fanatic. As the proprietor of 2012apocalypse.net, one of the top Google hits for searches on the Mayan apocalypse, he'd be easy to paint in that way: His ...

On Friday, Dec. 21, some say, the Mayan apocalypse will arrive and the world will end. Fortunately, it won't. A bold claim, we know, but if it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for us. The ...

The US space agency fist tackled the thorny issues surrounding the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on December 21 in a blog post early this year. Since then, the staid scientific body has been ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ancient prophecy. As researchers keep pointing out, the real story is less ...

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is “a very Western, Christian” concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.” If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off ...