Mayans did not predict end of the world in 2012, expert says Mexico - A German archaeologist Sven Gronemeyer of La Trobe University in Australia, says he has been studying Mayan tablets which make reference to 2012. The archaeologist says the tablets do not predict the end of the world, but the beginning of a new era. The expert archaeologist's interpretation of the Mayan inscriptions was presented on Wednesday at a forum of Mayan experts at the Palenque archaeological site in southern Mexico. Digital Journal reported that Mexican archaeologists recently acknowledged a second reference to the date 2012 in Mayan archaeological relics in connection with what many have interpreted as end of the world. Daily Mail reports that the archaeologist Sven Gronemeyer, who has been studying the stone inscriptions found several years ago at the Tortuguero site in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Tabasco, says that what the inscriptions describe is the return of an obscure Mayan deity Bolon Yokte, at the end of the 13th period of 400 years, or Baktuns. This date falls on December 21, 2012.The archaeologist stressed, however, that there are no overt apocalyptic references in the prophecies. According to Gronemeyer, the inscriptions refer to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years beginning with the year 3113 B.C. in the Mayan Long Count Calender. The Tortuguero inscription was a prophecy of Bahlam Ajaw, a Mayan ruler. According to Gronemeyer: "For the elite of Tortuguero, it was clear they had to prepare the land for the