Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle
by jacobolus on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:43AM
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That’s exactly what I just said... the Spaniards burned all of the books except for a small handful which were sent back to Europe as curios.
> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction. – Bishop De Landa
> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction. – Bishop De Landa