More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — University of Texas at Austin researchers discovered evidence in Guatemala for the earliest known Maya calendar. According to a UT release, the researchers found and pieced together ...

If you thought 365 days was a long time, try resetting your calendar every 18,980 days instead. 52 solar years make up the longest cycle of the Mayan calendar – a complex and ancient system that’s ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

Humans have been around on this earth for quite a while, developing different kinds of technology since the beginning. One of these technologies is the science behind keeping time and creating ...