Calm Posted May 11, 2012 Posted May 11, 2012 http://news.discovery.com/history/mayan-calendar-discovery-doomsday-120511.htmlThe oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.The hieroglyphs, painted in black and red, along with a colorful mural of a king and his mysterious attendants, seem to have been a sort of handy reference chart for court scribes in A.D. 800 -- the astronomers and mathematicians of their day. Contrary to popular myth, this calendar isn't a countdown to the end of the world in December 2012, the study researchers said.
altersteve Posted May 12, 2012 Posted May 12, 2012 Out of curiosity, could there be any connection between this and the Book of Mormon?
blackstrap Posted May 12, 2012 Posted May 12, 2012 So this calender is the oldest known example from 800 AD ? I thought the calendars could be traced back several centuries before Christ and were probably inherited from previous civilizations? Is it just the dating 'system' that can be traced back?
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