Modern visualization of the Mayan calendar at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Credit John W. Hoopes, 2012
Monument 101 from Toniná, Chiapas (Mexico) has one of the latest recorded Long Count dates, written as 10.4.0.0.0 (note the bar-and-dot numerals), referring to a day in the year AD 909.
2012 is here -- much to the terror of some of the world's doomsayers. It's the year that the ancient Mayans are said to have predicted the end of the world. Not so, say scholars of the Maya, who lived and live today in Mexico and Central America.
