Multiple Choice Question for you, Saundra: We know plenty about the Mayans because...
(a) Mucho archaeological finds re: Mayans
(b) No archaeological finds but rather "Gold-plated" sourced stories about the Mayans -- gold plates that mysteriously disappeared...to this day, no one knows where they are.
(c) Some guy peering into a hat with his pet rock in front of his eyes left us all their stories
(d) A burning in the bosom occurring whenever we read stories constructed from processes (b) or (c)
Lamanite bride heading south to join the brethren in the Mayan Nation.