Anthropologists John Linden and Victoria Bricker from Tulane University think they've finally figured out how a Maya calendar works, as they believe the calendar worked over a period of not 819 days, but 45 years.
A cycle featured in Maya calendars has been a mystery pretty much since it was rediscovered and its deciphering began in the 1940s.
Covering a period of 819 days, the cycle is referred to simply as the 819-day count. The problem is that researchers couldn't match that 819 days u...
