Mayan calendar: It does not predict the end of the world (video)

 

 

A new discovery of Mayan tablets leads specialists into believing that the Mayan did not forsee the end of the world in 2012, as they were counting 7,000 years into the future.

“Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?’ observed Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., an expert on Mayan astronomy. ‘You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on.’

Archaeologist William Saturno, of Boston University in the United States who led the exploration and excavation, said: ‘For the first time we get to see what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper.

‘It’s like an episode of TV’s ‘Big Bang Theory,’ a geek math problem and they’re painting it on the wall. They seem to be using it like a blackboard.’

Anthony Aveni, professor of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University, said: ‘It’s like the odometer of a car, with the Maya calendar rolling over from the 120,000s to 130,000.
‘The car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the numbers turn over; the Maya just start over.’

Source: DailyMail