Tag: Long Count Calendar

On This Day In History: Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar Begins – On August 11, 3114 B.C

MessageToEagle | August 11, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – On August 11, 3114 B.C the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, particularly the Mayans, begins. According to Maya theology, the world was

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Maya’s Long Count Calendar Linked To European Calendar According To Carbon-14 Dating

MessageToEagle | April 12, 2013

MessageToEagle.com – The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according