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Reviewed on April 15, 2011
Media are full of doomsday predictions related to the Maya Long Count calendar end date, December 21, 2012, in today's Western calendar. Restall and Solari (history, anthropology & women's studies and art history, respectively, Pennsylvania State Univ.) take a serious look at Maya calendar development, archaeology, and history to seek the truth behind the so-called Maya doomsday prophecy, which adherents believe may forecast the end of the world. The authors see no evide...Log In or Sign Up to Read More