Discovery of Mayan Calendar Confirms 2012 'End Date'

Emerged from the jungles of Guatemala, an ancient Maya text has confirmed the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, Dec. 21, 2012. 

This is considered one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, the 1,300-year-old inscription which contains only the second known reference to the "end date," but does not predict doomsday. 

Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute, said that, "The text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," 

The text is carved on a stone staircase, the inscription was found at the ruins of La Corona, in the dense rainforest of northwestern Guatemala, by an international team of archaeologists led by Canuto and colleague Tomás Barrientos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.