The Islamic calendar and the sacred month of Muharram

The Hijri calendar is a lunar system that guides Islamic worship, highlighting the sacred months, the virtues of Muharram, ...

Archaeologists Find Ruins of Maya Monuments Off the Beaten Path. Way Off.

Scientists drove ATVs for miles and then hiked miles more through dense forest to reach a site untouched by looting on Mexico ...

In 2010, archaeologists clearing a Maya room at Xultun found painted numbers, revealing calendar math on the wall

An accidental discovery in Guatemala has revealed ancient Mayan calculations etched onto the walls of a buried room. These ...
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Archaeologists at El Palmar say they found the earliest Long Count calendar date in the Maya lowlands

A carved stone monument at El Palmar, a Maya site in the Mexican state of Campeche, carries a calendar inscription that dates ...
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This Crumbling Monument Bears an Inscription That Changes What We Know About the Maya Calendar

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While the Gregorian calendar is our best attempt at rendering Earth’s solar reality on paper, it’s far from the most complex calendrical system out ...