The Maya's ingenious secret to survival

[PatrickforB]

2. Thank you for another fascinating post and link.

The fact that the Catholic priests who came with the Spanish invasion destroyed so many artifacts in these civilizations is an ongoing tragedy. So many things we will never know.

What, for instance, were they like as a people? Did they have heroes? What did their social strata look like? What was the extent of their economy and how did it operate? Did Mayan traders ply the northern and southern continents? Did they have ships? Did they conduct a regular census?

And now we know they were advanced enough to have created the first know filtration system for water, and these reservoirs. How did they fund these projects? Who did the labor? Clearly their architecture reflects mathematical and astrological/astronomical mastery. I have always wondered so much about the cultures that predated the Spanish and Northern European invasions.