Oldest Known Maya Calendar Found

**fmw** · May 31 2012, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by fishmatter

You'd think that a culture with the ability to predict cataclysm on a galactic scale over a thousand years into the future would have seen whatever took them out in the 9th century a mile away. And that was probably just an extended drought or a bunch of men with big axes.

What took them out was not axes but diseases for which they had no defense.

**wyly** · May 31 2012, 07:52 PM

oh wow they wrote in english?...Mexican? Mexico? there was no state of mexico or mexicans but a number of independent tribal regions none that I know of were called mexico...that poem is likely as authentic as the predictions of the 2012 prophesy, certainly not the result of legitimate archeologists.....

**wyly** · May 31 2012, 08:00 PM

spanish steel destroyed the empires, diseases just decimated the populations later...

**fishmatter** · May 31 2012, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by fmw

What took them out was not axes but diseases for which they had no defense.

That's certainly the consensus. My point still stands, unless there's evidence that they saw it coming.

**wyly** · Jun 01 2012, 05:47 AM

aztecs, mayans, incas all were defeated in battle first, disease followed...where there were no battles and contact was peaceful disease did the job...