The Maya civilization populated a region around southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and western Honduras, and flourished between the third and tenth centuries AD, but by 1200 AD their society had collapsed for reasons we can only guess at. The ancient Maya had been keeping historical records - using a script which mixed ideographic and phonetic elements. Some of their writing still exists on stelae (stone monuments) that recount civil events and record their knowledge. The civilization of Maya is one of biggest mysteries in our time and almost all of their written data and knowledge were destroyed by conquistadores.
The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and by some modern Maya communities in highland Guatemala.
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