EPISODE · Aug 11, 2026 · 10 MIN
The Maya Calendar's Zero Date
from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen
On August 11, 3114 BC, the Maya Long Count calendar begins counting days, from a starting point no one witnessed and no one remembered. Scribes reasoned that morning backward into a prehistory with no cities and no writing, then built a system that could name any day across five thousand years without repeating.Send me a text!Support the show
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