Teh One Who Knocks
11-26-2011, 03:05 PM
The Daily Record
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A FRAGMENT found at an ancient Mayan ruin site contains a reference to an apocalypse in 2012.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin.
The inscription is on the carved or moulded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was built with bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick", as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums.
Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to December 21 2012 or December 23 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
David Stuart, a Mayan specialist at University of Texas, said: "Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced."
Given the strength of internet rumours about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organising a round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar".
http://i.imgur.com/zDPdw.jpg
A FRAGMENT found at an ancient Mayan ruin site contains a reference to an apocalypse in 2012.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin.
The inscription is on the carved or moulded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was built with bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick", as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums.
Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to December 21 2012 or December 23 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
David Stuart, a Mayan specialist at University of Texas, said: "Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced."
Given the strength of internet rumours about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organising a round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar".