scientists earners Neumeier calculations
will a world really end in 2012 I’m Lucy
McNeil and this is National Geographic
on assignment your link to thousands of
nat geo expeditions around the globe
today we go deep into Guatemala’s
northern rainforest
when national Geographics bill Saturno
has been working in the ancient Maya
city of short tune his team are nursed a
small room that may have been a work
room for my escribes paintings and
unfinished sketches covered some of the
walls but on one there were numbers
calculations and tables the most
important one is probably right here
painted in the 9th century advanced
photographic techniques helped reveal a
hidden set of numbers calculations
referring to date some 7,000 years in
duration contradicting the idea that the
Maya thought the world would end in
December 2012 the Maya counted cycles of
time like the odometers of our cars with
each sort of passing day the digit
clicks over to the next digit we’re
approaching the period in which the next
digit will change now for some that
means the calendar comes to an end
for the Maya that’s not how they saw for
the Maya that was the beginning of a new
cycle in the same way that we might
rejoice and hitting a hundred thousand
miles in our color that’s National
Geographic on assignment your link to
our explorers
will a world really end in 2012 I’m Lucy
McNeil and this is National Geographic
on assignment your link to thousands of
nat geo expeditions around the globe
today we go deep into Guatemala’s
northern rainforest
when national Geographics bill Saturno
has been working in the ancient Maya
city of short tune his team are nursed a
small room that may have been a work
room for my escribes paintings and
unfinished sketches covered some of the
walls but on one there were numbers
calculations and tables the most
important one is probably right here
painted in the 9th century advanced
photographic techniques helped reveal a
hidden set of numbers calculations
referring to date some 7,000 years in
duration contradicting the idea that the
Maya thought the world would end in
December 2012 the Maya counted cycles of
time like the odometers of our cars with
each sort of passing day the digit
clicks over to the next digit we’re
approaching the period in which the next
digit will change now for some that
means the calendar comes to an end
for the Maya that’s not how they saw for
the Maya that was the beginning of a new
cycle in the same way that we might
rejoice and hitting a hundred thousand
miles in our color that’s National
Geographic on assignment your link to
our explorers
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