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The Mayans living there say it isn’t real–now Mexico’s archaeology institute is checking out that December 21st doomsday prediction. They basically deny it, but they HAVE admitted that a SECOND reference to that date has been found on a carved stone fragment at a ruined Mayan site.

Earlier, most experts knew of only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, on a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The second apparent reference to the date has been found at the nearby Comalcalco ruins.

Both inscriptions–the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick–were probably carved about 1,300 years ago.
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As December 21st comes closer, the Mayans of Guatemala are speaking out against what some are calling a government- and tour business-led effort to profit off a major misinterpretation of their traditions (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).
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A vast city built by the ancient Maya and discovered nearly a century ago is finally starting to yield its secrets. Excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultún in Guatemala’s Petén region, a team of archaeologists has uncovered a structure that contains what appears to be a work space for the town’s scribe, its walls adorned with unique paintings and hundreds of scrawled numbers. Many are calculations relating to the infamous Mayan calendar. Does it give any indication about whether the world will end in December?
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