Chapter 1855： Mysterious Maya (5)

In the massacre discovered after 1200, the murderers and their motives for the killing are still unclear. What was the cause of this massacre? If it was a robbery and murder, why even the jewels from the body were thrown into the pool?

If it is not robbery, then it is revenge?

Archaeologists discovered murder weapons-stone axes and stone knives beside the bones of the dead.

The murderer finished killing and left the murder weapon on the corpse of the deceased, which proved that the other party did not hide his identity. After the killing, the murder weapon was thrown away.

Later, forensic scientists found traces of trauma on almost every bone.

What does that mean? To put it bluntly, after the murderer killed someone, hia cruelly divided the dead. They used heavy and sharp tools, such as an axe, to penetrate the flesh and cut the femur from the thigh bone. From the wounds cut from behind, it can be inferred that the murderer still chased and killed people who tried to escape.

Forensic scientists speculated based on a piece of cervical vertebra that belonged to a boy under 12 years old: At that time, the murderer suddenly appeared in front of the boy. The boy turned around to escape, but the murderer stabbed him from the back with a knife and at the same time slapped him with his hand. Pulling his head back, he used a sharp stone knife to pierce under his jawbone.

Of course, this boy was not the youngest of the dead, the youngest was only a few months old.

The wounds on the bones and the expensive ornaments worn on the deceased raised the possibility that the deceased was not a soldier who died in the war, nor was it a religious sacrifice, but a member of the royal family who was slaughtered.

So why are they treated so cruelly?

At a distance of 70 meters from the pool, the archaeologists also discovered a very shallow tomb with a fragmented male skeleton.

The deceased wore valuable accessories from head to toe. Although it looked like he was buried in a hurry, he was obviously respected to a certain extent.

Around the dead, a circle of shells engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs was placed. It was these shells that became the key clues for judging the identity of the tomb owner, because in Maya society, only the high-ranking dead, that is, nobles, could Possess such funerary objects.

It is strange to archaeologists that Mayan nobles are usually buried in gorgeous tombs, but this tomb has neither a burial chamber nor a sarcophagus. There is not even a slab covering the tomb. It is only about 60 cm deep. The humble pit itself.

The only basis for judgment is the text on the shell.

The Maya created their glorious civilization, which included Mayan writing.

In 1519, when the first Europeans came to the land of the Maya, they were surprised to find a large number of books written in Mayan characters. These books recorded the wisdom of Maya civilization, including precise calendars, astrological records, and The grand religious ceremony blueprints and so on.

However, in the eyes of the Spaniards who were full of gold at the time, these precious books became "Satan's masterpieces." They could not read these disturbing words, so they burned all the books. America The most complex and delicate characters formed on the continent have since disappeared.

It also caused huge difficulties when experts later tried to interpret Mayan characters.

In the merciless fire of destruction by the Spaniards, only four books escaped the doom. It was not until the 1960s that experts began to study and finally decipher some of the Mayan text.

The hieroglyphologist Frederick Fassen recognized the words in the shape of monkey heads, which are "Marsh" and "Kan" in Maya.

What does that mean? Archeologists deduced from the same pattern on Cancun’s stone carvings that the “Kan Marsh” carved on the shell is the name of a king in Cancun.

As for why it was buried in such a simple pothole, some experts attributed the reason to coincidence.

Kan Marsh died around 800 AD, and the massacred nobles not far from his tomb also died at the same time.

A similar situation actually happened. The polar bear revolution broke out and the czarist dynasty fell. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and all five children were shot and executed. Even the youngest child did not escape. Inferring from this logic, the dead who were thrown into the puddle were probably Kamash’s family members. They were deliberately killed, and the entire royal family was massacred.

This series of clues can be summed up: The Cancun massacre occurred around 800 AD; King Can Marsh died around 800 AD; Around 800 AD, Cancun suddenly disappeared from history; around 800 AD, The Maya suddenly abandoned all the cities and disappeared.

A massacre that exterminates humanity, the humble funeral of a king, the sudden demise of cities, the decline of a glorious civilization for unknown reasons, all of this happened at the same time. Is this just a coincidence?

Some experts believe that there must be an incentive for all these tragedies.

And this inducement is likely to be a natural disaster. It is important to know that the Mayans have been cutting down trees to obtain fuel and growing land for crops. While deforestation has brought convenience, it has also caused serious consequences, exposing Maya’s land. Under the threat of storms and floods, these lands eventually turned into barren land. At that time, the worst drought in hundreds of years happened.

Because of the drought ordinary people couldn't survive. To survive, they revolted outright and killed all members of the nobility, including the king, for fear that they would come back to life. They were dismembered after the killing to ensure that they Will not be reborn, and then a group of people embarked on the road of survival, but no one thought that this was a way of no return.

Of course, this kind of speculation is too dark, and it may be reversed. In the era of the Cancun massacre, disasters were frequent. In order to survive, a large number of Maya abandoned the city, including Cancun and other Mayan cities, and a large number of refugees left. Cancun, walking through the rainforest, looking for food and shelter.

At this time, refugees from other cities discovered Cancun, which had become an empty city. For the resources in the city, they brazenly drew their swords against the royal family, and finally slaughtered the Cancun king's family, occupying this temporary foothold.

Or, the collapse of society at that time caused terrible domino-like consequences: thousands of people left their homes and moved to other places, and the emotions of the displaced refugees became increasingly desperate, and suddenly the situation got out of control. Violent conflicts were frequent, royal families were slaughtered, Cancun became completely unrecognizable, and the glorious Maya civilization began to fall, replaced by chaos, desolation and blood.

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