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In the News . . .

• The case for an entirely new calendar -- BBCcapital (30 December 2015)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Intact Maya Hieroglyphic Panels and Well-Preserved Stela -- Past Horizons (18 July 2015)
  
  
• Aztec App Brings Historic Mexico Codex Into the Digital Age -- ABC News (15 January 2015)
  
  
• The Ancient Maya Meet the Modern Internet -- Washington Post (20 May 2013)
  
  

Tzol k'in 20 X 13 = 260 day Sacred Ritual Calendar 20 X 18 = 360 day Secular Calendar called the Haab, also known as the "Vague Year"
		Every 104 years [2 X 52] the same 3 cogs meet ~ Venus Venus returns to the same point in the sky every 8 years (minus two leap days) [13 X 8 = 104]
Every 52 years the same 2 cogs meet = "The Calendar Round" The Maya numeral system was essentially vigesimal (i.e., base - 20) -- Maya calendar -- Wikipedia "Long Count 0.0.0.0.0 correlates to August 11th, 3114 B.C." "The last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012" Will this be the End of the world? -- Wikipedia

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• Maya Calendar -- Centro de Estudios del Mundo May
  
  
• The Maya Calendar -- MichielB
  
  
• The Mayan Calendar -- N.A.F. McNelly
  
  
  • Mayan Date Calculator
    
    
  • Calendar Notes
    
    
• The Mayan Calendar -- calendars through the ages
  
  
• The Maya Calendar System -- Kevin L. Callahan
  
  
• Maya Predicted 1991 Solar Eclipse -- LiveScience (08 January 2013)
  
  
• Mexican Heritage Almanac
  
  
• Calendario Maya
  
  
• Calendar Notes -- N.A.F. McNelly
  
  
• Calendars -- Mexican Heritage Almanac, Fanya S. Montalvo
  
  
• YUCATAN'S MAYA CALENDAR -- Centro de Estudios del Mundo Maya - YUCATAN, MEXICO
  
  

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Aztec Calendar -- Wikipedia

AZTEC

• Aztec Calendar
  
  
• The Aztec Calendar: Math and Design -- Charles William Johnson
  
  
• The Aztec Calendar [Stone] -- Charles William Johnson
  
  
• Aztec Sunstone Calendar -- Wesley Thurmond, Meghan Kucher, & Will Esposito

• Religious Observances and U.S. Public Holidays Calendar -- University of Minnesota

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Calendar / Calendar Systems -- Wikipedia