Deciphering the Mayan Calendar: Apocalypse Misunderstood?
By Augustus Kane · Published June 10, 2026 · Updated June 10, 2026 The Mayan calendar apocalypse is a modern misreading. December 21, 2012 marked the completion of the 13th baktun in the Maya Long Count, a cyclical rollover after roughly 5,125 years. No surviving Maya inscription predicts destruction on that date; the doomsday narrative […]
Kryptos Sculpture: The CIA’s Unsolvable Enigma
By Iris Kowalczyk · Published June 10, 2026 · Updated June 10, 2026 The Kryptos sculpture is an encrypted copper screen that artist Jim Sanborn installed at CIA headquarters in 1990. Its 869 characters hold four messages. Cryptanalysts solved the first three by 1999. The fourth, K4, has never been cracked. In 2025 its plaintext […]