The Mayans penchant for building places of worship brought their downfall
In 2001, when a hurricane ripped through the jungles of northern Guatemala, an uprooted tree at the base of the ruins of a pyramid exposed stones bearing one of the longest texts of hieroglyphs ever found. The inscriptions belong to the Mayan civilization. Part of a grand staircase leading up the side of a pyramid, the inscribed stones recorded the triumphs and defeats of a civilization caught in the middle of protracted warfare between two superpowers of the civilization
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/temples-doom
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kaushik-das-gupta
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/monuments
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drought
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sacred-groves
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/society-and-history
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/guatemala
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-america
