The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

My interview with anthropologist Geoffrey Braswell of the University of California in San Diego, an expert on Mayan culture, had just been published on RFE/RL's website. The story was part of our ...

The Mexican ("Aztec") 365-day calendar and the Western Maya (Yucatec) 365 day calendar in use at the time of the Spanish conquests of Mexico and the Yucatan have an invariable relation to each other.

Researchers have long pondered the significance of Feb. 23, the date of the Aztec New Year. New findings suggest it aided in the accurate tracking of the seasons. Modern and past Indigenous peoples, ...

Many scientists believe that the heart of the Sun Stone or Aztec Calendar was the face of Tonatiuh, god of the sun There is a special relationship between a solar eclipse, like this April 8, and the ...

"Revised edition of paper presented at the XXVI International American Congress in Seville. October 12, 1935." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...