Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 "Doomsday" Myth.

In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it's not just any mural.

In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are rife with calculations that helped ancient scribes track vast amounts of time. Contrary to the idea theMaya predicted the end of the world in 2012, the markings suggest dates thousands of years in the future.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120510-maya-2012-doomsday-calendar-end-of-world-science/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18018343

Hey you. Yeah, you in the tin-foil hat. The world isn't going to end this year. Go pre-order Bioshock Infinite.

Thank God because I enjoy living!

Meh. Harold Camping predictions are way funnier than the Mayan calendar one ever got.

I've never believed that bullshit anyway, maybe this will convince some people

Maybe we can get the doomsday-theorists to shut up now for a while, the only reason they thought the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012 was a Mayan farming calender that people think roughly ends around 2012.

If someone found my cellphone in 50 years and got it working, would people believe the world would end 2099 because my phones calender ends there...?

The Mayans never "predicted the world would end in 2012", their calendar just happened to end this year. Had they still existed they probably would have just extended it some more (or as this source suggests, they already did.

It doesn't really change anything because IT WAS A BUNCH OF FUCKING BULLSHIT ANYWAY.

As Chavtheworld said, 2012 was just the year their calendar ended due to the calculations they used.

Even if they did say the world would end in 2012, what the fuck makes people think the Mayans would know?

Goddammit, now when the world doesn't end the believers wont be proved wrong they'll just bring this up.

The world actually ended in 2000, as predicted by poorly written computer programs.

The Maya were actually just counting down to the Hobbit movie.

Wait, people actually believed that stuff? I always thought it was just a bad joke.

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

LONG LIVE LIFE!

@Chavtheworld said:

The Mayans never "predicted the world would end in 2012", their calendar just happened to end this year. Had they still existed they probably would have just extended it some more (or as this source suggests, they already did.

Exactly, the Mayans themselves never put any significance on the date, it was only some hack of a "historian" that did that and it's always been widely disputed by anyone with an ounce of sense or knowledge about the Mayans.

This discovery just makes it easier to point and laugh at anyone who was for some reason taking it seriously.

Man, I was so looking forward to death. Guess it's back to the grind.

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

I am disappointed that it wasn't just a MSpaint drawing of fire falling from the sky.

@Village_Guy said:

Maybe we can get the doomsday-theorists to shut up now for a while, the only reason they thought the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012 was a Mayan farming calender that people think roughly ends around 2012.

If someone found my cellphone in 50 years and got it working, would people believe the world would end 2099 because my phones calender ends there...?

I believe that now.

They actually never accounted for leap days anyway, so the Mayan calendar has actually already been over for a few months.

Sounds like... they had the... Maylennium Bug. *sunglasses*

Quetzalcoatl does not care for your silly drawings, he will still come for humanity.

Oh buuu I was hoping for some info like this after the NOthing happened.

@Village_Guy said:

Maybe we can get the doomsday-theorists to shut up now for a while, the only reason they thought the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012 was a Mayan farming calender that people think roughly ends around 2012.

It wasn't even that, though. The Mayans just thought the end of the calendar meant the end of this period of human history and the beginning of another, like Bahamut Lagoon. Apocalyptic connotations entered the picture only when Westerners saw this calendar stuff and imposed their ideas of the world ending on it. (Not a particularly good idea, either, since their Apocalypse was supposed to happen in, like, the 400s or something.)

Wasnt the giant stone predicting a "Time of rebirth? 

THE MAYANS INVENTED IRON MAN!

Ok, being serious now: this is actually a bad thing. When Dec 21st rolled around and we were all alive, the lunatics would have had some explaining to do. Now they have an easy out: We were using the wrong calendar!

So we basically screwed ourselves out of a point against the crazies. I hope you're happy archaeological community.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

Wasnt the giant stone predicting a "Time of rebirth?

Uh oh.

@nintendoeats said:

Ok, being serious now: this is actually a bad thing. When Dec 21st rolled around and we were all alive, the lunatics would have had some explaining to do. Now they have an easy out: Suicide pact!

@Rolyatkcinmai said:

They actually never accounted for leap days anyway, so the Mayan calendar has actually already been over for a few months.

No.

The Myan calendar is based on Days, not years.

If any of that was true we would have already been dead a few months ago because of leap days....

Sounds like... they had the... Maylennium Bug. *sunglasses*

on december 21st 2012, the mayan spaceship xibalba will be restarted and everyone not on it will die.

god you guys learn to read the news

Ok, being serious now: this is actually a bad thing. When Dec 21st rolled around and we were all alive, the lunatics would have had some explaining to do. Now they have an easy out: We were using the wrong calendar!

So we basically screwed ourselves out of a point against the crazies. I hope your happy archaeological community.

phew! I guess I can stop building my underground bunker then, I should also cancel my plans for ransacking a wallmart in August.

Kinda makes the current Assassin's Creed plotline look extra dumb. And gives Ubisoft an excuse to produce annualized AC games for thousands of years.

Fuck you, archaeology. This is the madness you wrought!

The Mayans didn't have 'wheel' technology; http://thewondersexpedition.com/TWE/2012/leap12/

Makes me wonder why people are giving them so much credit.

That mural looks like it predicts The Flash.

I'm okay with this. May Barry Allen bless you all.

@PassiveKaerenai said:

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

Not once have I ever thought about it this way, but now that you mention it, I agree: it's literally the event of a lifetime, and I want to be apart of it, dammit!

@MadMagyar92 said:

@PassiveKaerenai said:

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

Not once have I ever thought about it this way, but now that you mention it, I agree: it's literally the event of a lifetime, and I want to be apart of it, dammit!

That does sound quite glorious...although, I'm pretty sure you'd be thinking differently if the apocalypse actually came and you were surrounded by molten lava or a thousand horny, rapey badgers.

yo, that looks like fucking iron man. did tony stark invent a time tunnel?

Oh SNAP! What am I going to do with all this survival gear? Damn it! Sigh... at least there's hope for a zombie apocalypse.

Wait... what happens at the end of 2035 in animal crossing? Because that IS the end year for it on gamecube... does the world end in it then?

I'm not surprised. Nostradamus's predictions run to the year 3797, so you know the world is going to be around at least until then.

@Sanj said:

@MadMagyar92 said:

@PassiveKaerenai said:

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

Not once have I ever thought about it this way, but now that you mention it, I agree: it's literally the event of a lifetime, and I want to be apart of it, dammit!

That does sound quite glorious...although, I'm pretty sure you'd be thinking differently if the apocalypse actually came and you were surrounded by molten lava or a thousand horny, rapey badgers.

Sounds like an epic party to me

I'm not surprised. Nostradamus's predictions run to the year 3797, so you know the world is going to be around at least until then.

@selbie said:

@Sanj said:

@MadMagyar92 said:

@PassiveKaerenai said:

Is it sad that I entertained the thought of looking forward to it? If I'm gonna die, I wanna die in the Freakin' Apocalypse, man. Come on! Am I all alone on this one?

Not once have I ever thought about it this way, but now that you mention it, I agree: it's literally the event of a lifetime, and I want to be apart of it, dammit!

That does sound quite glorious...although, I'm pretty sure you'd be thinking differently if the apocalypse actually came and you were surrounded by molten lava or a thousand horny, rapey badgers.

Sounds like an epic party to me

It's a very old sentiment.

Saint Peter (IE, the guy who founded the Cathiloic church and "First Pope") thought the world would be ending soon. Apparently he was off by a few years.