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I am sure this is only the tip of the iceberg for these kinds of finds. The Maya put so much into writing their "history" on stone, almost knowing in advance that their writings would be stolen, looted, or destroyed. They somehow managed to put their whole experience into stone formation, which in all reality makes sense in the very long run. I don't believe cd's and computers will last that long, when one considers other factors, like possible wars and natural disasters having an effect on artifacts' duration as historical records. Although, hopefully, we will learn 'oral' traditions, as well, as a heed from the Maya's past to present. One day we will realize that they recorded the history of our world, as was written in Popol Vuh, which describes all the world's tribes after the destruction of a once ultra-modern society(ies). A cloud covered the sky (like nuclear winter), while the people sand a song called, "Blame is ours". This, after technology turned upon their makers in the third (fourth?) world history. They describe the re-understanding of harnessing fire through a being called, Tohil, who eventually manipulates them into human sacrifice for the knowledge of fire. Yaqui's and some other tribes just take the knowledge from him in rebellion. This was obviously a world wide phenom, until the Hero Twins descended into Chibalba (underworld) to defeat the Lords of Death. Like Jesus, they won over on the illusion of our so called "demise" that is caused by these Lords and their numerous Vassals. The Maya were not as war like, or as much into human sacrifice as is now being taught. What will surface is an even more extraordinary people than previously thought, dating back much further than what is now being reported by the academia. When one considers their immense knowledge of the sciences, astronomy, architecture, etc, one begins to see a people who have been engaged in a very long, and arduous process of discovery, which in my estimate may have been ongoing (mutating) for thousands and thousands of years. When our scientists insist that the Maya were not even around for the start of their Long Count Calendar (3113 bce), which is connectively (with the other Mayan calendars) more advanced than our own, they make a big mistake. As one can see, our Gregorian calendar is based on continued borrowing of astronomical observance from all other previous calendars on that side of our world, prior, going back before the Egyptians, who had a much less advanced calendar than even Caesar’s. How did the Maya, who supposedly because of war, collapsed, develop such an outstanding calendar(s) in so little time, as compared with Europe? The Romans supposedly evolved around the same time as the Maya, and if the Maya were so engaged in continuous combat, how'd they do all those amazing things?

Correction: A cloud covered the sky, (like nuclear winter), while the people sang a song called, "Blame Is Ours"; the correction being the word sang instead of sand.

Academic science has no clue what there in for in researching the ancient Maya. Finding a few ruined buildings is nice and lends us clues about the cultural heritage of these people - but there is so much more waiting to be uncovered from other vantage-points. The Maya were supreme engineer/artisans and designed some of the worlds most spectacular sculptural reliefs on the side of cliff's and mountains. Stay tuned - you will be shocked at what awaits to be uncovered.

i agree with very much being said in the above opinions.. but ... the wheel... doe's it not bring all culture's forth from a stone age posistion?while the mayans were masters of astronomy... they domesticated few animals... and did not choose to use the wheel... why?
they mastered thier terrain, had a fine road system, coastal trade, trade spaning hundreds of miles... why no use of the wheel? in all of they're art and codex's no word or glyph exists for the wheel... seems odd.. may i suggest that many jungle mountains are but clay or earthen pyramids, that the mayans had a much longer history than european scholars suggest... historians... i.e. scholars want to protect thier field 's of study.. and livelyhood's. we need to open our mind much more ... some things are just obvious, if we take off old blinder's.