Why does the Mayan Calendar stop at December 2012?

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Like, why can't it keep going forever?...i don't get why it doesn't get bigger date numbers...

If anything, doesn't this prove that the Mayan Calendar is incorrect??

AND, I thought all the planets were discovered LATER in history, by Galelio or whoever it is...so how could the Mayans already know what planets were which?
well i didn't mean to sound ignorant or something. it's just that i would think they would have recorded which Mayan would have discovered the Planets.. Cuz the Mayans didn't have high tech instruments like we have today, so how would THEYY see the Planets?
 
The Mayans could see the stars and the planets and by sight distinguish between the two by the apparent movement among the fixed stars. The validity of the claim is not tested by any one. The Mayans were descendants of the Olmec empire, with records and codices being destroyed by fire by the Spanish conquistadors.
But there was always a oral tradition. We don't know what will happen on 12/21/2012, but the time and date are related to a phenomenon called the precession of the Equinoxes. It's the end of a five thousand year cycle. The Mayan calendar is remarkedly accurate due to their computation of the value of pi, which value was more reliable than any European pi.
 
it's when the Myans thought the world would end.

Just because westerners didn't discover somthing until later dosn't mean someone else didn't find it first.

We who decend fron the europeans tend to think that somthing was discovered when a european found it. Not always the case, For example the Chineese were using gunpowder and paper money long before they were known in europe. but we tend to date them from when they were discovered in europe.
 
The Mayan's believed that the world would end on the
21st December 2012.

I suggest we wait until then to see if it comes true !
 
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