For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

SAN FRANCISCO — For generations, the Maya thrived in an advanced, complex civilization in modern-day Central America. But then their society collapsed in the eighth and ninth centuries. Now, a new ...

The world is ending right now! Unless you believe the Mayans were operating on Daylight Savings Time, in which case the clock is ticking on both Earth's final hours and the race for the stupidest near ...

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 ...

Chinese hysteria about the Mayan apocalypse has gotten so bad the U.N. has take to social media to deny rumors that it’s distributing tickets for a doomsday ark. The tickets are widely available on ...

If you want to see a roomful of people roll their eyes, just walk into a gathering of astronomers — or experts on ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, for that matter — and shout, “Mayan apocalypse!” ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ancient prophecy. As researchers keep pointing out, the real story is less ...

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 ...

Misguided interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar have led to rumors of the world ending tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 21. Some doomsayers believe a rogue planet will crash into Earth, or that a solar ...

Facing the purported Dec. 21 Mayan Apocalypse head on, a number of dining and drinking establishments are enticing customers to eat and drink with them like there's no tomorrow. Friday, Dec. 21, is ...