Cancuen
An international team of arqueologists have found proof of the most likely cause of the demise of the Maya. In the Mayan city of Cancuen, this team has found evidence of massacres of the nobility of this city. From samples taken from this site, the arqueologist have been able to date this event to the year 800 A.D. After this, the inhabitants of this city that was important to the mayan trade dissappeared. The importance of this city in the south of Peten was due to its location close to the Usumacinta and La Pasion rivers. The mayan civilizacion left many riddles that haven’t been solved yet. Due to the disappearance and destruction of the written documents they left, not all their history is known. For years, many arqueologist have been proposing several theories as to what cause the Maya to disappear. When the Spaniards came to Guatemala, the mayan civilization was all but disappear. What the Spaniards found were different ethnic groups of mayan extraction. The Mayan society was ruled by the nobility and then the priests. It is very likely that if this massacre occured in this place, society lost its balance and there was no guidance of any kind.
