this is the only article in English I could find on short notice that talks about the discovery. I didn't misunderstand it, the Dutch news I saw just went into it more than this article does.Akonyl wrote:you're misinterpreting what that article says then
related to what I touched on (and Kyuu explained in much more detail), all this article mentions is that the calendar they found has denominations of time larger than the Baktun, and the article actually still lists December 21st 2012 as the end of the current Baktun:
the doomsday belief isn't based around the calendar suddenly ending (a system of writing numbers that had a definitive and concrete "largest possible number" would be weird), just that this is the end of the 13th Baktun, which as Kyuu mentioned leads crazies to believe that the end of the world will happen then. So, the article does nothing to disprove the idea that the date in question for the crazy doomsayers is still December 21st, and in fact still says that that's the correct date.The Maya recorded time in a series of cycles, including 400-year chunks called baktuns. It's these baktuns that have led to rumors of an end-of-the-world catastrophe on Dec. 21, 2012 -- on that date, a cycle of 13 baktuns will be complete. But the idea that this means the end of the world is a misconception, Stuart said. In fact, Maya experts have known for a long time that the calendar doesn't end after the 13th baktun. It simply begins a new cycle. And the calendar encompasses much larger units than the baktun.
I have Dutch articles too, but I don't think you can read those.
