No end of the world by the year 3500

American archaeologists have discovered the oldest known Mayan calendars.

Phew, we are saved! Resell your bunkers immediately: the end of the world will not take place December 21, 2012, contrary to the claims of popular rumor . This would be based on a prediction detected in the Mayan calendars . But American archaeologists have discovered the oldest known Mayan calendars on the walls of a house in Guatemala. 

"Beyond the Year 3500"

"The ancient Maya predicted the world would continue in 7000 and that year things would be exactly as they were then," says archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, who led the excavations. "Some calendars also go even beyond the year 3500 our Christian calendar". In one room of this house, the walls are indeed covered with glyphs (characters carved in stone) many of which are numbers representing calculations related to different calendar cycles of that civilization. This is a ceremonial ephemeris of 260 days, the solar calendar of 365 days, and the annual cycle of 584 days of the planet Venus and that of 780 days of March.

The obsession with the end of the world

"Today we are always looking for signs that the world will stop when the Maya rather sought assurances that nothing would change, it's a totally different mindset," said William Saturno. "The announcement may seem anecdotal, but the obsession with the end of the world is not so marginal,". According to an international survey of Ipsos, nearly 15% of earthlings to think of their living experience of the end of the world, and they are nearly 10% believe, in accordance with the Mayan prophecy, it could happen in December. These can now be reassured, or at least change prophecy.