Will the Mayan Doomsday Prophecy Come True?
As the year 2012 draws closer, more and more eyes are focused on the final month of the year when the Mayan Long Count calendar is due to end. Accompanying this date is a great deal of speculation regarding how the Mayan people viewed what would happen, along with many predictions of the end of the world. Many envision the end times as involving the destruction of the world as we know it by natural forces, such as volcanic eruption and earthquakes. These events are common even today and so we know their huge potential for destruction. Can we know whether the prophecies will come true or not? We can only really speculate but we can also look at the kind of people that the Maya were to judge whether or not they would be likely to have insight. From the beginning, the Maya were a civilization that was advanced in comparison to those around them. They were mathematical geniuses and in fact they understood the abstract concept of the value of zero before even the advanced cultures in the ea
