2012 Mayan calendar doomsday prophecy debunked by Houston Museum of Natural Science

By now, it is pretty much a given that anyone reading this will have heard that the ancient Mayan people left a prophecy about the world coming to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. To help get the message out that the sun will, indeed, rise on Dec. 22, 2012, and life will continue on as it has, this weekend the Houston Museum of Natural Science is opening a new exhibit that is meant to debunk this myth.

The exhibit contains murals from Yale University that were painstakingly recreated, showing monuments from the ancient Mayan ruins of Bonampak. Records of special events are shown in stone carvings and rubbings, pyramid replicas reveal how astronomers kept track of the seasons, and the details of the Mayan calendars are shown in videos.


"The calendar is there, and it will continue, so nobody ought to be afraid of what Dec. 21 will bring because there will be a Dec. 22 and, yes, there will be a Christmas," said Dirk Van Tuerenhout, curator of the Maya 2012 Prophecy Becomes History exhibit.

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