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The Mexican archaeology institute says that a second possible reference has been found to a date in December 2012 as the end of a 5,200-year Mayan calendar cycle after which "the cosmos is regenerated". Reportedly the glyph in question is carved into the back of a brick found in ancient temple ruins - suggesting that it was a …

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  1. Billy Bob Gascan

    Confused Ignorant Journalists

    There are a bunch of really buggered up English language versions of this story on the web. It turns out that the brick only has a Calendar Round not even a Long Count on it and it has no distance glyphs to indicate it refers to the future. A Calendar Round is a combination of a 260 day ritual calendar and a 365 day vague solar year with no leap year. It can only specify a date as far as 18,980 days or 51.9641 solar years. See:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Calendar_Round

    The Calendar Round on the brick is 4 Ahau 3 K'ank'n. Yes this is the same CR as the one that will occur on 13.0.0.0.0. Does this mean any thing? No, Not according to David Stuart, one of the world's leading experts on Mayan epigraphy and participant in the Palenque congress. Still the media went wild and reported that it did.

    This is B**l Sh*t.

  2. Winkypop Silver badge
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    Sell everything!!

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  3. Brett the Brat
    Devil

    Another mysterious brick says.........

    URAMORONTHEDATETHEWORLDWILLENDISWHENITISGOINGTOEND

  4. Gav76

    count to 13?

    If the long count date is base20 then why would it end after 13? won't it just roll over to 14?

    And do these doomsayers not read how the 'world' started according to the Mayans? Somebody lifted up 3 stones to allow the sun to be seen!! They're going to believe these people that the world will end wen nobody can count past 13?

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