Thursday, August 10, 2023

The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

Most notably used by the Mayans, this is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar. Widely used on monuments, the calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days that have passed since a mythical creation date, corresponding with the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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