Discover Oldest Mayan calendar

US experts discovered the oldest documented Mayan calendar today, which belies the close of the year would come in 2012, features an article released in the journal Science. The discovery was made ​​in the jungle northern Guatemala, on the walls of a room hidden in the forest of the ancient Mayan city of Xultún, and draws attention not only its age-dated to the ninth century AD, also their preservation, says the publication. decipher the pictograms took more than two years, and they observed the cycles of the Moon, Sun, Venus and Mars, and the phases that would over the next seven thousand years. Along the calendar were also found columns of figures, painted figures several characters that could be related to the royal family or the clerk, or perhaps both, the report said.However, it is unknown whether it was a temple, though the place was part of a large building which is a 500 years older than the Mayan codes written on paper. Archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, one of the authors of the research, explains that in this calendar there is no sign of the apocalypse, the identification of 17 astronomical cycles in used instead of 13, chaos theory dismount definitive end of this year, he says. For the first time we see what may be authentic records of a clerk, whose job was to be the official in charge of documenting a Mayan community, says Saturn , who hopes to determine many other secrets of this community.