Years the Mayan calendar actually continues after this week, according to David Stuart, a professor of Mesoamerican art at the University of Texas at Austin. It simply enters a new cycle.

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

the Gregorian calendar—what we use today—is an improvement of the Julian calendar. The Mayan Calendar is one of these calendars that has withstood the test of time. Although it has not been ...