The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span ...

The celebration is focused on the end of the Mayan Calendar, which signifies a time of peace, forgiveness, and letting go of the past year while making room for the new year, according to a news ...

Every 260 days, Indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala celebrate a new cycle of the Maya calendar. This ceremony has persisted for thousands of years, from pre-Columbian times to today.

Such a development, I think, resonates today. People pay attention to the changing of the seasons, and they know when the summer solstice occurs thanks to a calendar app on their phones.

Pati learns more about Mayan communities on a trip to a cenote with activist Zoila Cen. Today no trip to Yucatán is complete without seeing a beautiful cenote, natural freshwater pools in caves ...