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"It was 12 cycles, 18 katuns, 0 uinals and 16 kins since the beginning of the Great Cycle. The day was 12 Cib 14 Uo, and was ruled by the seventh Lord of the Night. The moon was nine days old.
Precisely 5,101 of our years and 235 days had passed since the beginning of this universe, and only 23 years and 22 days yet remained until the final cataclysm that would destroy it. So the ancient Maya scribes and astronomers would have calculated, for the day was 14 May 1989." ("Breaking the Maya Code", Michael D. Coe)
This 5000 + year calendar was remarkably accurate. Most researchers claim the age of Pisces ended, and the start of the age of Aquarius occurred in the 20th Century, and this confirms that the Mayans joined a number of other civilisations in understanding precession.
Most of the discussion on this thread has been restricted to the paradigm boundary of 2000 years ago, and when we were discussing the dead seas scrolls, and corroboration with other ancient texts, one person even suggested that in that time events were carried mouth to mouth and story tellers would get a feed for making up wondrous stories.
What we've done is go back thousands of years before this; and we can see that civilisations had accurate methods of communicating in writing, whether on copper, papyrus or clay, or depicted in paintings and highly developed skills as well as complex languages.
The Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world for 3,800 years, which puts the Jesus Christ period 2,000 years ago in perspective