0 Question: why could the mayans not be bothered to write calendars any further than 2012 Keywords: 2012, mayan Asked by jonnyp97 to David, Rebecca, Simon, Verity, Wei on 16 Jun 2011.
Verity Nye answered on 16 Jun 2011:
They believed that the world would end in 2012 so I guess they thought “what’s the point?”.
Wei Xun answered on 16 Jun 2011:
Hi jonnyp97:
Apparently the Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012, if anything, it’s cyclic so it’ll just go over to the next era and start at day 0 again, you can go back and reuse the old calendar.
Here’s a good article: http://usat.ly/yrrP
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