Chapter 1855 Mysterious Maya (5)

This massacre was discovered 1,200 years later. The murderers and their motives for killing are still unclear. What was the cause of this massacre? If it was robbery and murder, why were the jewelry on the body also thrown into the pool?

If not robbery, then revenge?

Archaeologists found murder weapons-stone axes and stone knives next to the bones of the deceased.

After the murderer finished killing the person, he left the murder weapon on the body of the deceased. This proved that the murderer did not hide his identity at all and just threw away the murder weapon after the killing.

Forensic scientists later discovered traces of trauma on nearly every skeleton.

What does that mean? To put it bluntly, after the murderer kills someone, he brutally cuts the body into pieces. They use heavy and sharp instruments, such as axes and other tools, which can penetrate the flesh and cut off the femoral head from the thigh bone. It can also be inferred from the wounds that were cut from the back that the murderer was chasing people who were trying to escape.

Forensic scientists speculated based on a piece of cervical vertebrae belonging to a little boy under 12 years old: At that time, the murderer suddenly appeared in front of the little boy. The little boy turned around and wanted to run away, but the murderer stabbed him in the back with a knife and killed him with his hand. His head was pulled back, and a sharp stone knife was stabbed under his mandible.

Of course, the boy was not the youngest among the deceased; the youngest was a baby only a few months old.

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

So why were they treated so cruelly?

70 meters away from the pool, archaeologists also discovered a shallow tomb with a fragmented male skeleton.

The deceased was covered in expensive jewelry from head to toe. Although he appeared to have been buried in a hurry, it was obvious that he was still treated with a certain degree of respect.

Around the deceased, there is also a circle of shells engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics. It is these shells that become the key clue to determine the identity of the tomb owner, because in Mayan society, only the deceased with a high status, that is, the nobles, can To have such grave goods.

What makes archaeologists find it strange is that Mayan nobles are usually buried in gorgeous tombs, but this tomb has neither a burial chamber nor a sarcophagus, nor even a stone slab covering the tomb. It is just a 60-centimeter-deep tomb. A simple trap.

The only thing that can be used as a basis for judgment is the writing on the shell.

The Mayans created their brilliant civilization, which included Mayan writing.

In 1519, when the first Europeans came to the land of the Mayans, they were surprised to find a large number of books written in Mayan characters. These books recorded the wisdom of the Mayan civilization, including accurate calendars, astrological records, and Grand blueprints of religious rituals, etc.

However, in the eyes of the Spanish people who were full of gold at the time, these precious books became "the masterpieces of Satan". They could not understand these disturbing words, so they burned all the books in America. The most complex and exquisite writing that the continent had ever produced disappeared.

It also caused huge difficulties when experts later tried to decipher Mayan writing.

Only four books escaped the merciless fire of destruction by the Spanish. It was not until the 1960s that experts began to study and finally decipher some of the Mayan writings.

Pictographist Federico Faison recognized the monkey-head-shaped script, which is the Mayan word for "marsh" and "kan."

What does that mean? Archaeologists inferred from the same pattern on the stone carvings in Cancun that the "Can Marsh" carved on the shell was the name of a king in Cancun.

As for why it was buried in such a crude pit, some experts attribute the reason to coincidence.

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

In fact, there were similar situations. When the polar bear revolution broke out and the Tsarist dynasty was overthrown, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their five children were all shot. Even the youngest child did not escape death. If According to this logic, the dead people who were thrown into the puddles were probably Cammarsh's family members. They were deliberately killed, and the entire royal family suffered a massacre.

This series of clues is summarized: the Cancun massacre occurred around 800 AD; King Can Marsh died around 800 AD; around 800 AD, the city of Cancun suddenly disappeared from history; around 800 AD, The Mayans suddenly abandoned all their cities and disappeared without a trace.

An inhumane massacre, the humble funeral of a king, the sudden demise of cities, the unexplained decline of a brilliant civilization, all happened at the same time. Is this just a coincidence?

Some experts believe that there must be a cause for all these tragedies.

This inducement is likely to be a natural disaster. You must know that the Maya have always relied on cutting down trees to obtain fuel and land for growing crops. While cutting down forests has brought convenience, it has also caused serious consequences, exposing the Mayan land to Threatened by storms and floods, these lands eventually became barren, just in time for one of the worst droughts in hundreds of years.

Because of the drought, ordinary people could not survive. In order to survive, they revolted and killed all members of the nobility, including the king. For fear that they would resurrect, they also dismembered them after killing to ensure that they would not be reborn. Then a group of People embarked on the road of survival, but no one thought that this was a road of no return.

Of course, this speculation is too gloomy. It may also be the other way around. In the era when the Cancun massacre occurred, disasters occurred frequently. In order to survive, a large number of Mayans abandoned the city, including Cancun and other Mayan cities. A large number of refugees left Cancun, walking through the rainforest in search of 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 attacked the royal family, and eventually massacred the Cancun royal family and occupied this temporary foothold.

Or maybe the collapse of society at that time had terrible domino-like consequences: tens of thousands of people fled their homes and moved to other places. The displaced refugees became increasingly desperate, and suddenly the situation spiraled out of control. Violent conflicts occurred frequently, the royal family was massacred, the city of Cancun was transformed beyond recognition, and the glorious Mayan civilization began to fall, replaced by chaos, desolation and blood.

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