Mayan Codeis, Mesoamerca's Illuminated Manuscripts
I wanted to share the forgotten books of the America's. When the Spanish invaders conquered the indigenous people of the Americas they destroyed the libraries of the more advanced cultures they found here. Of the thousands of codeis contained in those libraries only a handful survived, thus most people are ignorant of the true advanced cultures that existed prior to the invasion by Europeans. It is said the Mayans and the Aztec priests had the knowledge and skill to conduct complicated surgeries, even open heart surgery. While I do not know if this is true, I do know the history, knowledge and culture lost when those libraries burned is no less tragic than the burning of the Library of Alexandria. The art intermingled with the pictographs tell the stories of the Mayan. The groupings of dots, lines and circles together are the written Mayan numerical system. Many of the codeis are accounting records.
