How to Survive the Mayan Apocalypse  It starts with an
earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane.  Apocalypse Now: How
to Survive the Mayan Apocalypse  It's not the end of the world.
Maybe you just think it is. And given the confusion surrounding
the Mayan calendar, that's not surprising.  Doomsday theorists
believe that the end of the world, or the Mayan apocalypse, will
occur on December 21, 2012. It's a premise based on the Mayan
Long Count calendar (the 21st marks the day when the calendar
moves from one cycle to the next).  Of course, not all believe.
NASA's helpful guide "Beyond 2012: Why the World Won't End" is
meant to assure us that a total blackout, polar shift, or attack
from Planet X is not imminent. But those folks at NASA covered
up the whole Roswell thing, so who can trust them, right? Maybe
archaeologists have more integrity. Indiana Jones and all that.
Just a few months ago, in the jungles of Guatemala, a team led
by archaeologist and Mayanist scholar William Saturno unearthed
a Mayan mural