1,300-year-old Maya text indicates 'end date' of world

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Washington, June 29 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered a 1,300-year-old Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012.

The discovery made while working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala is one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades and it was announced at the National Palace in Guatemala.

"This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," said Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane's Middle American Research Institute and co-director of the excavations at La Corona.

Since 2008, Canuto and Tomas Barrientos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala have directed excavations at La Corona, a site previously ravaged by looters.

"Last year, we realized that looters of a particular building had discarded some carved stones because they were too eroded to sell on the antiquities black market, so we knew they found something important, but we also thought they might have missed something," said Barrientos.

What Canuto and Barrientos found was the longest text ever discovered in Guatemala. Carved on staircase steps, it records 200 years of La Corona history, according to David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at The University of Texas at Austin, who was part of a 1997 expedition that first explored the site.

While deciphering these new finds in May, Stuart recognized the 2012 reference on a stairway block bearing 56 delicately carved hieroglyphs. It commemorated a royal visit to La Corona in AD 696 by the most powerful Maya ruler of that time, Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul, only a few months after his defeat by long-standing rival Tikal in AD 695.

Thought by scholars to have been killed in this battle, this ruler was visiting allies and allaying their fears after his defeat.

"This was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," said Stuart.

So, rather than prophesy, the 2012 reference places this king's troubled reign and accomplishments into a larger cosmological framework.

"In times of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to promote continuity and stability rather than predict apocalypse," said Canuto. (ANI)

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[Holmes]

We are already on well half of 2012 and nothing did happened?

[PteX]

The Mayans were not talking about the end of the world, rather they were talking about an end of an era, the end of the world as we know it.
@Holmes
Don't be pessimistic, i`m sure a war or two will occur this year.

[Mech]

They probably ran out of place in their calendar.

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

They didnt make a calendar after that date coz their ink got over or maybe the guy was too tired.I mean who would like to make a calendar for the fututre when he knows he is not goinna survive to see that day.

[Splurgenxs]

This is just another way for people to make money out off. As the years runs out ,survival kits and bomb shelters would be selling like hot cakes.

Creating false necessity is an age old practice of man.... Earlier con men were good at this ,but now its the capitalists.

[hinduguy]

Oh no, not another 2012 thread.

[XTREME]

lol, The Earth is going no where. Infact we don't know about ourselves

[harpoon]

[Holmes]

The Mayans were not talking about the end of the world, rather they were talking about an end of an era.

Which era?

@Holmes
Don't be pessimistic, i`m sure a war or two will occur this year.

In Syria, Iran ? It's going to be out of control.

[Era_923]

This is just another way for people to make money out off. As the years runs out ,survival kits and bomb shelters would be selling like hot cakes.

Creating false necessity is an age old practice of man.... Earlier con men were good at this ,but now its the capitalists.

Agree with you on this.Maybe its just a mental preparation for some wars,who know?

PS,I love your avatar man,it's awesome,love the guy
Giggity.

[PteX]

Which era?


In Syria, Iran ? It's going to be out of control.

Who knows? Should be an end of something, possibly of certain nations.

[shahzadasweet]

no 1 knows when this world gone End ONlY God knows and let Him decide

[Era_923]

Who knows? Should be an end of something, possibly of certain nations.

Can you elaborate?Which nations for example?

[airuah]

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lol .......the world does not end without Zaid Hamid doing his Gazwa-e-Hind......so the Mayans were clearly wrong......