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    An ancient Maya city reveals its secrets to solve one of history’s biggest enigmas

    by David Keys Apr 24, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Bernard DuPont

    A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation.

    This new discovery – the ritual destruction of the symbolic icons of a deposed royal dynasty – is helping to reveal the complexity of that decline.

    Together with historical data from transcribed Maya hieroglyphic texts from other sites, the discovery, at Ucanal in northern Guatemala, provides a unique glimpse of the political instability that seems to have fundamentally changed Maya history.

    Archaeologists believe that the new discovery

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