August
05
/ 2019
Archaeologists studying the fate of the flame engulfed ancient Maya city of Witzna believe that in AD 697 an army of Naranjo’s, from a kingdom in what is now Guatemala, caused the catastrophic scorching and that this event entirely changed the face of warfare in this region of South America. Environmental challenges and scarcity of resources led to disputes with neighbors, which caused the Maya to convert their tools of farming into weapons of war and for many years, archaeologists thought the Maya a peaceful people, more than capable of war, but rarely indulging in it until after AD 800. But the findings of an August 5 report published in Nature Human Behavior brings all this into question by detailing
