tonight i'm gonna party like it's two thousand eleven
Posted on 05/10/2012 5:09:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.
The hieroglyphs, painted in black and red, along with a colorful mural of a king and his mysterious attendants, seem to have been a sort of handy reference chart for court scribes in A.D. 800 — the astronomers and mathematicians of their day. Contrary to popular myth, this calendar isn't a countdown to the end of the world in December 2012, the study researchers said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
I read this article eariler today. Such an interesting find, especially what sounds like a calendar worksheet (sort of a Mayan version of an IRS Schedule C)
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