ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ 2012 ΑΝΑΒΑΛΛΕΤΑΙ

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It’s a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan «Long Count» calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn’t end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will – or if it has already.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook «Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World» (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)

ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΥΠΟΓΕΙΑ ΠΟΛΗ ΒΡΕΘΗΚΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΑΡΙΣΣΙΑ

A Greek mans home is not necessarily his castle. Land can be owned, houses and businesses can be built, but only the land above ground belongs to the owner. Whatever is beneath the ground belongs to Greece. The law is very strict concerning ancient sites and artefacts. If something is discovered below ground it must be turned over to the Greek government and the owner will not become rich from his find as those who own oil land do, but is more likely to lose it.

Kyparissia is an ancient town on the Western Pelopennese coast of Greece. It is a place of great charm and beauty, dominated by the Castle of Kyparissia, or Arkadia, as the town was once known. The castle, which was originally built as a defence against marauding pirates, looks down on the Ioanian Sea. It is floodlit at night standing proudly on guard above the town.