100%!! And so advanced and sophisticated by Western European standards, but that did not fit with the conquerors’ perception of all non-whites as pagan savage, and the Franciscans burned all of the Mayan codices they found…
We were just in the Yucatan two months ago. There are no hills there. Everything we thought was a hill is another ruin of a Mayan pyramid. They're EVERYWHERE. Their civilization was immense.