If Spirit Airlines can do marketing based on Tiger Woods' marriage blow-up, then hoteliers certainly can find plenty of opportunity in the Mayan calendar end of the world, and after-world.

the world was supposed to end. A grain of truth — there’s usually at least a grain of truth — about the Mayan calendar (that one of its long-running cycles ended in December 2012 ...

Golden and Scherer argue the Maya collapse was less a collapse and more a gradual process, occurring in fits and starts, and for different reasons in different places. “The end of a kingdom is more ...

who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora of palaces, altars, shrines, and soaring temples, Tikal may be the premier Maya site. For over 1,100 years ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

The boat has been tentatively dated between 830-950 AD, towards the end of the Maya civilisation's golden age. Around this period, the Mayas suffered a major political collapse, marked by the ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...