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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The hype is beginning to invade the cultural landscape like bio-engineered kudzu: the end of the world is a mere three years away. In late December, 2012, thanks to an unusual celestial alignment or ...

CHICHEN ITZA, Mexico (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of mystics, hippies and tourists celebrated in the shadow of ancient Maya pyramids in southeastern Mexico on Friday as the Earth survived a day ...

The ancient Mayan calendar runs out tomorrow morning, and some true believers are anticipating the end of time at 8AM. ‘If it ends, it ends,’ tryp guru Terence McKenna — whose fractal timewave graph ...

If anything is certain about the misinterpreted Mayan prediction of the Dec. 21 apocalypse, it’s that the end of the world will not stop people from making money ...

MERIDA, Mexico (AP) - Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic than cosmic, the punch line of ...