Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
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mesoamerican-long-count-calendar-188-2445158
title:
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
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The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monumen
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Calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
date created:
2007-02-16T00:04:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T18:15:15Z
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