2012: The story of a false apocalypse

02-04-2012 door Frederik François

Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? The answer is a clear and evident ‘no’. This short article retraces the origins of this false myth and prophecy that has attracted a wide audience over the last year and dispels the notion that judgment day is upon is… Origins In the 1960’s, workers building a cement factory stumbled by accident upon carved monuments on a site that is now called ‘El Tortuguero’ in the southernmost part of the Mexican province of Tabasco. The site,... » meer lezen