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Originally Posted by Darkland
The sad fact is, we know almost nothing about the Mayan culture. Almost all of their writings were completely destroyed in the name of Christianity as well as many of their citizens. I remember reading somewhere that there are only like 5 or 6 Mayan documents that survived which now reside in museums.
Yeah... Chalk another great victory up to religion.
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So true. It is really sad for sure. i think it is just 4 codexes that were smuggled out by Spaniards back when all their writings were put to the bonfire. A lot of good stuff destroyed in the name of Christianity. Like In 391 Emperor Theodosius ordered the destruction of pagan temples and writings. This included works by Aristotle, Plato and so on as they were "pagan".