"1,700 years ago, speakers of proto-Ch'olan, the ancestor for three Maya languages still in use, had developed a calendar of 18 20-day months plus a set of five days," wrote Weldon Lamb, a retired adjunct professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, in his book " The Maya Calendar: A Book of Months (opens in new tab)" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).
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