Predicting the End of the World
The Mayan Long Count Calendar comes to the end of its 5125 year cycle. New age prophecies, based on the ancient calendar, warn the world will end when the cycle concludes in December 2012. Host Bruce Gellerman travels to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza to track down the truth.
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