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Who were the Maya? They established an extended civilization, pioneering cultivation of corn, cassava, and squash, devoting vast centers to their gods, and ruling not as an empire but as a collection of city states. Then the civilization disappeared. “Though their descendants have preserved some of their culture’s traditions and lore, much about the Maya remains as mysterious today as it did centuries ago when their secrets were still hiding in plain sight,” Erin Blakemore writes. (Pictured above, a sculpture of a warrior found at a temple in Palenque, Mexico.)
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