In a new paper, author Dale King proposes that the actual date was much earlier - December 26th, 2004.
A village in Turkey has become the latest location deemed to be a haven from the Mayan apocalypse.
A new study suggests that extreme weather conditions may have decimated the ancient Maya civilization.
The Guatamalan government has been accused of perpetuating the doomsday myth for financial gain.
Experts believe that while the Mayas did make prophecies, none of them were about the end of days.
Doomsday theories continue to thrive as the end of the Mayan calendar is now less than 100 days away.
The 1600-year-old Temple of the Night Sun has been located deep within the Guatemalan jungle.
Despite regular dry seasons the Maya found an ingenious way to store enough water to sustain them.
The 1,300-year-old text has been found carved in to stone steps at La Corona in Guatemala.
The oldest ever Mayan calendar has been unearthed by archaeologists at the Xultun ruins in Guatemala.
Mexico has acknowledged that more than one reference to 2012 has been found on Mayan artifacts.
A new documentary will allegedly provide evidence of alien contact with the ancient Mayan civilization.
Three-dimensional mapping has been used to reveal a long lost city in the Guatemalan rain forest.
An expert in Mayan writing believes he has deciphered a code that will lead to eight tons of gold.
A new book argues that the conversions of Mayan dates may be off by as much as 100 years.
Lasers have been used to peer through the rain forests and reveal an ancient Maya metropolis in western Belize.
A Mayan built conduit designed to deliver pressurised water has been unearthed at Palenque in southern Mexico.
The ancient Mayans may have been a lot more advanced in the area of running water than previously thought, scientists be...
New research on the Maya civilization which is believed to have collapsed due to its overuse of natural resources and sl...
For over one thousand years the Maya dominated Central America, now scientists believe that their demise may have been s...