WASHINGTON (Reuters) – on a wall of a small

structure buried under the rainforest in Guatemala archaeologists

discovered annotations of a scribe on the Mayan calendar

lunar, they say could be the first records of a

official of this ancient civilization. chronicler

these annotations are related to the same calendar

maya believed mistakenly predicted the end of the world or

around December 22 2012. researchers that

helped to discover and decipher the inscriptions on the wall

said that the Mayan calendar provides a vast progression of

time, and that the date of December 2012 is the beginning of

a new cycle calendar called baktun.

“the Mayan calendar will follow by million, trillion of

years in the future, a huge number that our mind can not

assimilate””, said William Saturno, of the University of Boston and

author of an article about the discovery in the publication

Science.

the faintly visible numerical wall inscriptions

in Guatemala measured time in approximately increments of

six months, based on six lunar cycles, with small and

stylized figures of Mayan gods that indicate what was the

deity of a specific part of the time, said Thursday the

researchers at a briefing online.

” seems pretty clear that what we have here is a

lunar calendar “, said David Stuart, of the University of Texas

in Austin, another author of the article in Science.

the finding will also be published in the June edition of

Magazine National Geographic, which funded part of the

research.

the” numbers on the wall were possibly written by a

type or by a priest, who was an important figure in

Court maya where the monarchs were interested in astronomy

and sought to harmonize with events sacred rituals celestial.

the wall was used as a modern scientist would use one

slate to write formulas consulted frequently in

time of having to look at a book, said Stuart.

inscriptions date from around 800 DC, said

researchers.

besides the numbers there were images on other walls of the

structure, including one of a King with a feather headdress

sat on a throne, with a man dressed in white looming

your back. in another wall had a painting of a scribe

holding a plectrum.

paintings would be the first in maya art found in

the muren van een huis, zei de onderzoekers.

structuur, deel is begroeid, werd ontdekt de

2010 in de complexe Maya Xultún, in de jungle van Guatemala.

Xultún, waar ooit woonde van honderdduizenden mensen,

bestrijkt een oppervlakte van 31 km2, en duizenden van

gebouwen hebben nog niet verkend.

“is zeldzaam dat Xultún bevindingen zelfs bestaan.

Schriften en schilderijen op de muren van deze stijl worden niet bewaard

goed in de laaglanden van de Maya’s, met name in een

huis begraven één meter van het oppervlak”, zei Saturnus in een

meegedeeld.