Ancient Aliens: The Mayan Calendar Mystery (Season 14) | Exclusive | History

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Investigate why the Mayans used several calendars with no apparent solar connection - and how one of their calendars points to a mysterious date in our past. in this digital exclusive from Season 14. #AncientAliens
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[ibetternotseeyousimp]

The Mayan Calendar NEVER stated that the world was gonna end in 2012. Just the end of an Era and the beginning of a new one

[shadowsai]

Mayan culture is simply one of the best of all mankind. Its a shame the Spanish had burned so many of their books and documents. Who know what more we could have uncovered.

[hollyhocks]

The Mayan were Incredible mathematical genius’s.

[replysoon]

2012: ”preppers havs mental disorders!”
2020: ”Can I borrow a roll of toilet paper?”

[DradeyGick]

Did I expect December 21, 2012 to be mentioned?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

[ccfcbartlett]

Giorgio should I be sleeping at 1am instead of watching history channel!?
"Anicent astronaut theorist say yes"

[vinayaks]

Please do a research on Olmec civilisation.

[Jupitersuniverse]

calendars for planets in other solar systems.

[carlosantuckwell]

Their 360-day-in-a-year calendar (along with other ancient cultures having it) strongly suggests to me that Earth did only take 360 days to orbit the Sun (whether because it was a bit closer and/or that the Earth turned slower on its axis). This would account for the ancient tradition we have inherited of dividing a circle into 360 degrees. Otherwise, what a weird 'random' number to choose. They other thing about heavenly 'clockwork' is the fact that the female human cycle is the same as the time it takes for the Moon to go once round the Earth. Why should that be so? If it's some tidal effect, then why don't all similar-sized female mammals have it? They have a YEARLY cycle -- they only "come into heat" once a year, but the female human cycle is the same as the orbital period of the Moon around the Earth. Don't tell me that's mere coincidence.

[johnfullwood]

Everyday we move closer to the golden age. Thats all they were saying. , I’m still wondering why they never show the pyramid in Central America with the steps humans have to jump & climb up. The steps were built for giants. I was there in 1972, still see no pics or anything on this place. Like they don’t want anyone to know about it. It’s located in Honduras / El Salvador border, 63 miles north of Arendiki Honduras. Cala casca, opal all over the place!!Best stone work ., I still have the jelly opal from that site. Different than white or black opal but is clear with all the color.

[lucjanredulla]

Who came here after surviving June 21, 2020. End of the World.

[Greywolf-mvhx]

Could this be an answer to fix leap year, ancient theorists say yes!

[mikmowmil]

Some historians say the calendars predate the Mayas, it existed during the times of the Olmecs.

[sandeepsule]

they should compare it with hindu traditional calender which has 360 days and the difference of 5 days due to earth rotation period is adjusted periodically adding one month

[isahere]

I’m a skeptic about just about everything, and so I do question how each ancient civilisation came up with gods or a god, and mythology? Did these ideas spark from some delusional person who decided they one day wanted to randomly tell everyone that they saw these 'beings', and everyone just randomly believed them? Or did the first people create a recollection of their actual experiences? That’s one of the greatest mysteries that we won’t be able to know the answer to for sure. Scientists predict that everything came from nothing, and to be honest that would make sense, because even if these beings did exist, they would have had to of come from nowhere too. It’s just hard to comprehend the beginning of everything, and this video where it mentioned how these people were believed to have marked their idea of how they begun got me thinking

[alveera]

Awesome video!! These sophisticated calendars might also represent some kind of Stargate doorways to other galaxy civilizations! More translations & investigations needed! Kool ytube channel!

[nac]

0:21: That calendar has 9 months which closely matches the average gestation period.

[snowman]

The 13 represents the cycle of one day not a whole year. We have 24 hours in a day but when it hits 12 am it’s technically a 0 which represents nothing

[mabinthapa]

Time travellers from future went back there descending as gods...