Post 1 - The Mayan Nystery

Post 1 – The Mayan Mystery

Why did the ancient Mayans abandon their magnificent cities at the peak of their fabulous achievements and suddenly disappear?  This is Mayan Mystery, one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of history.  Nobody knows why this mighty empire collapsed without leaving a clue as to the reason, and nobody knows where the people went.  The only remains are the pyramids and the ruins of ancient cities.

(If you do not see a pyramid below, a photo will appear in a few seconds.)

Some of those Mayan cities were among the largest in the world at that time, with sturdy structures built to last a thousand years.  Why did the ancient people suddenly walk away from them, leaving behind even tools and valuables such as jade carvings and jewelry?

The cities in Belize were abandoned hundreds of years before the Spanish arrived, so the conquistadores were not the reason.  The most popular theories are disease, crop failure, natural disaster and war.  All of those theories are plagued by flaws severe enough they could not possibly provide the answer, so after decades of research by dedicated archeologists from many leading universities and museums, nobody yet knows what happened to those people.

This blog is for people interested in traveling to Belize, and for people interested in the famous Mayan Mystery.

This Mayan Mystery Tour takes you to ground zero of this puzzle, it takes you to Belize and to the same sites visited by the author of Mayan Mystery Unveiled, as he searched for the answer to the famous mystery. 

This tour also introduces you to a folklore legend discovered by the author, a tale that had been passed down from generation to generation in a Mayan village close to the ruins of an ancient city.  This bit of folklore was told to the author by a Mayan who lived in that village, and the author believes it originated with some traumatic event of long ago, probably when that city was abandoned.  According to the author, a folklore enthusiast, every folklore tale has hidden within it at least a scrap of truth, and for this tale that scrap of truth could reveal why the people fled the city.

Mayan Mystery Unveiled is a novel about the author’s search for that scrap of truth, it’s a lot like an Indiana Jones adventure.  The characters are fictitious, but the places are real and the events in the story were actually experienced by the author.

Read about it in the book, and you may want to take the Mayan Mystery Tour to experience this adventure for yourself.

Post 7 tells how to arrange for this tour.

In the following posts, the author tells the story of his visit to an ancient city and its pyramid.

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