The Sixties and Beyond

December 21, 2012

The World "Ends"

The Mayans used a Long Count calendar, this identified a particular date by counting the number of days from a starting date, which is calculated to have been 11th August 3114 BCE in the Gregorian calendar. A b'ak'tun was the longest unit of measurement in this system and was equivalent to 144,000 days (394 years). When correlated with the modern Western calendar it can be shown that the 13th b'ak'tun ended on 21st December 2012. This date generated a huge amount of publicity, with many gullible people expecting the end of the world.

The Mayan Calander