Oh no! Another Mayan prediction of an apocalypse in 2012 is found

• Carving at Comalcalco ruin 'backs up' first prophecy that world will end on December 21 next year

They've done their best in the past to downplay theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012.

But archaelogists at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History have admitted that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment.

Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

End of the world? Archaelogists at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History admit another Mayan reference to a 2012 apocalypse exits, this time at the Comalcalco ruin (pictured). It lies on the face of a carved or moulded brick

The second is an apparent reference at the nearby Comalcalco ruin on the carved or moulded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was built with bricks.

Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.

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