The Aztecs were so worried about the end of the world, in fact, that they regularly sacrificed humans in the hope of postponing the end by another year. A Vatican scholar claims Leonardo da Vinci hid the date of the apocalypse in his painting The Last Supper.
A curator of art and archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History believes the Aztec Empire predicted the apocalypse long before it — and even "managed" to reject it. "The Sun Stone was almost like a stage for a public ceremony," Susan Milbrath said, "Every 4 Olin, a high-value prisoner was sacrificed"