The End of the Mayan Long Count

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A Mayan calendar column was found in Quirigua, Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on August 13, 1929.

The Long Count Calendar
The Mayans designed the Long Count calendar to last approximately 5,125.36 years, a time period they referred to as the Great Cycle [source: Jenkins]. The Long Count calendar is divided into five distinct units:
one day - kin
20 days - uinal
360 days - tun
7,200 days - katun
144,000 days - baktun
To find the Lon­g Count date that corresponds with any Gregorian date, you'll need to count the days from the beginning of the last Great Cycle. But determining when the last cycle began and matching that up to a Gregorian date is quite a feat.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/mayan-calendar4.htm

1 baktun = 394.26 years