The in-depth observations of First Nations seasonal calendars could be key to improving solar power forecasting, according to ...

Archaeologists from @UHouston have uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak — Caracol’s first ruler and dynastic founder. It’s the ...

The moon and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye that morning, but skywatchers will need a telescope to see the “far ...

The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk’in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the “Long Count ...

The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is imminent.

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on ...

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire.

A millennia ago, two solar eclipses over the same area within six months would have seen Maya astronomers, priests, and rulers leap into a frenzy of activity.

Saxon State University and Library - Dresden In the Maya’s belief system, sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through ...

Ancient Maya saw solar eclipses as a “broken sun” that was a sign of possible destruction ...