calendars

Researchers have uncovered what might be the world’s oldest solar calendar at Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in southern Turkey. This ancient timekeeping system, etched into stone pillars, could be more than just a way to track the seasons – it might also serve as a memorial...

2012-DEC-21: The Mayan calendar expressed a date in the form: 6.19.18.1.5 This means: 6 Baktun, an interval of 144,000 days, 19 Katun (generations) of 7200 days, 18 Tun (years) of 360 days, 1 Uinal (month) of 20 days, 5 Kin (days) According to the (Widely accepted) Thompson...

That's already the date in some places - it will be, here in UK, in just over two hours. (It's the same date in the American and European system, and we won't got another for a century!) 11.11 on 11/11/11: are you going to mark the palindromic moment in time? From dressing up as the 11th...

Rather techncial: There have been a lot of claims for some of these early incised bones like the Tai plaque: Marshack, A. (1991) The Taï plaque and calendrical notation in the Upper Paleolithic. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 1 (1). 25 - 61. Here is an message from Marshack I found...

So, it's the year 70? -J

end of the world in 2013-according to the mayan calendar hey, i dont know if many of you know this but according to the mayan calendar everything will end in 2013(i forgot the date but i think it is somewhere in december).It does not say "the end of the world will come at 2013" in fact they...