Is the Mayan calendar wrong?

Maybe the world isn’t coming to an end anytime soon, after all.

According to the ancient Mayan calendar, doomsday is supposed to arrive on Dec. 21. 2012. But a recent critique of the calendar revealed that the end of the earth might actually get postponed, and the story is buzzing on the web . 

A critique of the Mayan calendar in the textbook, “Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World,” argues that the conversion from the Mayan calendar to modern calendar may actually by off by about 50-100 years.

And that means the Apocalypse would also be delayed, with no clear arrival date.

Read more of the story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101019/sc_livescience/endoftheearthpostponed .

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