The year 2012 has been filled with the screams and cries of the paranoid and the uneducated as they make their claims that the end of the Mayan calendar marks the end of the world. December 2012 is supposedly the date, seeing as how a cycle that was important to the Mayans comes to a close. Unfortunately for these doomsday lovers, new archaeological finds are showing that what was thought to be the end of the Mayan calendar by many is, in fact, not even close.
An excavation in Xultun, Guatemala has unearthed some rather interesting Mayan murals. The site has been known of since the early 20th century and a few attempts have been made to clear the remains, but one little house went undiscovered until recently. Within this house, thought to be a scribe’s chambers, archaeologists found the oldest known records of Mayan astrological tables to date. These markings are from the early 9th century, which put them ahead of other known Mayan calendars by centuries.
