末日预言再现玛雅砖块！
They've done their best in the past to downplay theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in archaelogists at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History have admitted that a second reference to the date exists on a carved 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.
过去，墨西哥考古机构尽了最大努力，对古玛雅人预言2012年是世界末日的说法，采取轻描淡写的态度。但考古专家们现已承认，在一个砖刻残片上，再次发现了这一日期。大多数专家先前提到的，都是在塔巴斯科海湾州托土盖罗遗址的一块石碑上，玛雅人用象形文字刻下的那个日期。
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 ro 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.
在（托土盖罗遗址）附近的科马卡科遗址，第二个关于这一日期的明显记载，被发现刻在了一个砖面上。科马卡科遗址和其他玛雅神庙的不同之处，在于它是用砖块建造的。研究所的一位发言人Arturo Mendez说，几年前就发现了这块刻有铭文的残片，并一直在对它进行深入研究。它并没有公开展览，一直保存在该研究所。
The 'Comalcalco Brick', as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online still doubt that it is a definite reference to December 21, 2012 or December 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.'Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced,' said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at said the date inscribed on the brick 'is a 'Calendar Round', a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years' brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th uns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 BC, and the 13th Baktun ends around December 21, the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Mr Stuart said.'There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period,' he said.
“科马卡科砖块”，作为第二块已知残片，惹得专家们在一些网上论坛展开议论。许多人仍然怀疑这个日期是否指2012年12月21日或12月23日——末日理论的支持者认为这一天可能就是世界末日。“有些人提出，这可能是证明2012世界末日的又一证据，但我仍表示怀疑”，美国得克萨斯大学研究玛雅碑文的专家戴维·斯图尔特说。他认为砖块上刻的是一个“历法循环”，结合了日期与月份，每52年重复一次。砖块上的日期的确与第13个白克顿周期(注：玛雅历书的400年周期，每年360天)的结束时间一致；白克顿约为历时394年的一个时间段，13则是玛雅文明中重要而神圣的数字。玛雅人的历法从公元前3114年开始，那么第13个白克顿大约在2012年12月21日结束。不过斯图尔特说，砖块上的日期也可能对应的是过去的一个类似的日期。他说：“没有理由否认它也是古代的一个日期，描述的是古典时期（注：起源于西元前2000年的玛雅文化，最盛期在西元200至1000年间，此时称作古典时期）某个重大的历史性事件。”
Both inscriptions - the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick - were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and ver, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying: 'He will descend from the sky.'The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
无论是托土盖罗石碑还是科马卡科砖块上的铭文，可能都是约1300年前刻下的。某种程度上，两者都有隐含的内容。托土盖罗铭文描述了一些设想会在2012年发生的事情，其中涉及到Bolon Yokete——玛雅文明中，与战争和创世相关的，一个神秘的神灵。然而，侵蚀作用和石头上的裂缝让碑文的结尾几乎难以辨认，但有些人读出，被侵蚀的结尾部分可能是“他将从天而降”。科马卡科砖块也有奇怪之处，因为砖块有字的那一面，里层或外层好像被抹过灰泥，故意不让人看见。
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumours of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernised misinterpretation of Mayan institute reiterated that 'western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilisations like the Maya' institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given n the strength of internet rumours about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organising a round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to 'dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another in the Mayan Long Count calendar'.
国家人类学与历史研究所一直声称，有关2012年12月底为世界末日的谣言是西方对玛雅历法的误读。研究所重申，“西方的救世主思想，扭曲了玛雅文明等古代文明的世界观。”研究所的专家们说，玛雅人认为时间是一个系列的周期，有规律地开始和结束，但某个周期的结束并不意味着任何预警。鉴于网络上关于2012灾难即将来临的谣言铺天盖地，研究所下周将组织一个，由60位玛雅文明的研究专家参加的圆桌会议。这个会议将在墨西哥南部的帕伦克举行，目的是“打消对玛雅长历法中，一个时代即将结束，另一个时代即将开始的怀疑”。
