Annihilation of Thousand Maya Books by Spaniard Conquerors
In the New World, there were ancient people who, like the Chaldeans and the Chinese, used writing to record eclipses and from these records detected a rhythm by which they could predict them or at least warn of their likelihood. Those people were the Maya, and we know of their achievement through one of their books—one of only four that survived the Spanish conquest and its zealous destruction of the religious beliefs of the native peoples.
