There's nothing more anticlimactic, nothing more utterly disappointing, than a failed apocalypse. A failed apocalypse is the gristly gourmet bacon-cheeseburger, the boring one-night stand, "The ...

The world is not going to end on December 21. No, not even according to the Mayan calendar. And especially not according to the awesome newly uncovered Mayan calendar — the oldest known Mayan calendar ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — There are years that are remembered for changing the course of human history: 1492. 1776. 1945. Then there are years that were predicted to change the course of history. 1844, when ...

COLUMBIA — The Mayan long-count calendar has created a stir among those believing the world will end Friday. Most scholars of the Mayans have tried to assure folks that imminent apocalypse is just not ...

Why worry about going over the fiscal cliff when the world is going to end Friday? Because it’s not going to happen – the world coming to an end, that is, just because the Mayan calendar stops at the ...

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 ...

You might expect the world not ending to be a cause for celebration. But for believers in doomsdays like yesterday's supposed Mayan apocalypse, the continued existence of the planet can be quite ...

The Mayan apocalypse calendar is winding down, the big hand on its doomsday clock ticking us ever-closer to our ill-fated day of reckoning. In little over a week, if the calendar, last resent in 3114 ...

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 ...