末日預言再現瑪雅磚塊！

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.
過去，墨西哥考古機構盡了最大努力，對古瑪雅人預言2012年是世界末日的說法，採取輕描淡寫的態度。但考古專家們現已承認，在一個磚刻殘片上，再次發現了這一日期。大多數專家先前提到的，都是在塔巴斯科海灣州託土蓋羅遺址的一塊石碑上，瑪雅人用象形文字刻下的那個日期。

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（託土蓋羅遺址）附近的科馬卡科遺址，第二個關於這一日期的明顯記載，被發現刻在了一個磚面上。科馬卡科遺址和其他瑪雅神廟的不同之處，在於它是用磚塊建造的。研究所的一位發言人Arturo Mendez說，幾年前就發現了這塊刻有銘文的殘片，並一直在對它進行深入研究。它並沒有公開展覽，一直保存在該研究所。

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.
“科馬卡科磚塊”，作爲第二塊已知殘片，惹得專家們在一些網上論壇展開議論。許多人仍然懷疑這個日期是否指2012年12月21日或12月23日——末日理論的支持者認爲這一天可能就是世界末日。“有些人提出，這可能是證明2012世界末日的又一證據，但我仍表示懷疑”，美國得克薩斯大學研究瑪雅碑文的專家戴維·斯圖爾特說。他認爲磚塊上刻的是一個“曆法循環”，結合了日期與月份，每52年重複一次。磚塊上的日期的確與第13個白克頓週期(注：瑪雅曆書的400年週期，每年360天)的結束時間一致；白克頓約爲歷時394年的一個時間段，13則是瑪雅文明中重要而神聖的數字。瑪雅人的歷法從公元前3114年開始，那麼第13個白克頓大約在2012年12月21日結束。不過斯圖爾特說，磚塊上的日期也可能對應的是過去的一個類似的日期。他說：“沒有理由否認它也是古代的一個日期，描述的是古典時期（注：起源於西元前2000年的瑪雅文化，最盛期在西元200至1000年間，此時稱作古典時期）某個重大的歷史性事件。”

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.
無論是託土蓋羅石碑還是科馬卡科磚塊上的銘文，可能都是約1300年前刻下的。某種程度上，兩者都有隱含的內容。託土蓋羅銘文描述了一些設想會在2012年發生的事情，其中涉及到Bolon Yokete——瑪雅文明中，與戰爭和創世相關的，一個神祕的神靈。然而，侵蝕作用和石頭上的裂縫讓碑文的結尾幾乎難以辨認，但有些人讀出，被侵蝕的結尾部分可能是“他將從天而降”。科馬卡科磚塊也有奇怪之處，因爲磚塊有字的那一面，裏層或外層好像被抹過灰泥，故意不讓人看見。

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'.
國家人類學與歷史研究所一直聲稱，有關2012年12月底爲世界末日的謠言是西方對瑪雅曆法的誤讀。研究所重申，“西方的救世主思想，扭曲了瑪雅文明等古代文明的世界觀。”研究所的專家們說，瑪雅人認爲時間是一個系列的週期，有規律地開始和結束，但某個週期的結束並不意味着任何預警。鑑於網絡上關於2012災難即將來臨的謠言鋪天蓋地，研究所下週將組織一個，由60位瑪雅文明的研究專家參加的圓桌會議。這個會議將在墨西哥南部的帕倫克舉行，目的是“打消對瑪雅長曆法中，一個時代即將結束，另一個時代即將開始的懷疑”。