13.0.0.0.0, Party's Over, Ooops, Out Of Time

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Posted to Etcetera on Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 09:25:21 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

The Maya built one of the larger empires in the "New World" at the time -- one that lasted from at least 1800 BC to at least 1697. They were known to have had some knowledge of complex math, and believed in a cyclical course of existence based on astronomy. Their calendar system has begun to raise attention again, ages after their civilization fell, because the current Mayan age ends at about December 21, 2012.

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