Maya Long Count
About the Maya Long Count
The Long Count is a running tally of days in units of k'in (1 day), winal (20), tun (360), k'atun (7200) and b'ak'tun (144,000, about 394 years). Under the widely accepted GMT correlation its zero date falls on 11 August 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The cycle 13.0.0.0.0 completed on 21 December 2012, which the Maya treated as a calendrical milestone rather than an end of the world.
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