"2012 End of the World Countdown" Starts Today According to Mayan Long Count calendar

Welcome to CRWENewswire News Update, I'm Christina Collins. Well it looks as though we are one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity. But will it?. The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for advanced mathematics and primitive astronomy, which flourished, creating what many have called the most accurate calendar in the world. The Mayans predicted a final event that included a solar shift, a Venus transit and violent earthquakes. Their Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, who wrote that the 13th Baktun ends on Dec. 21, 2012. The doomsday theories stem from a stone tablet discovered in the 1960s at the archaeological site of Tortuguero in the Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco that describes the return of a Mayan god at the end of the 13th period. In southern Mexico, the heart of Maya territory, a year long celebration is planned. Gronemeyer, of La Trobe University in Australia, compares the supposed Mayan prophecies to the Y2K hype, when people feared all computer systems would crash when the new millennium began on Jan. 1, 2000. Gronemeyer sates the many have ignored evidence that dates beyond 2012 which were recorded. The blogosphere exploded with more speculation when Mexico's archaeology institute acknowledged on Nov. 24 a second reference to Dec. 21, 2012, on a brick found at other ruin . Thank you for joining me and stay with us for all your latest in News for CRWENewswire News Update, I'm Christina Collins. ********************************* The Views and Opinions expressed by the author are his or her opinions only and do not necessarily reflect those of this Web-Site or its agents, affiliates, officers, directors, staff, or contractors. The author at the time of this article did not own any shares or receive any consideration financial or otherwise from any company or person mentioned or referred to in the article.