A 1,200-Year-Old Murder Mystery in Guatemala

NY Times ^ | November 17, 2005 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[Pharmboy]

I wonder if this is the origin of that Guatemalan drug gang?

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[Pharmboy]

See related story

[kb2614]

Bush did it. For the oil.

[Thane_Banquo]

Paging Dirk Pitt. Paging Mr. Dirk Pitt.

[RushLake]

Well one thing is probably a given. The perps weren't evil white boys. Here all this time I thought the nativehyphen(south/central)Americans were living in a peaceful state of grace with their God(s) or lack thereof until the evil white man came to kill all of them.

[Pharmboy]

ARTIFACTS OF A MASSACRE: Bones and spears are among the items
archeologists discovered in the ruins of the Maya city of Cancuen, in what today is
Guatemala. (Andrew L. Demarest)

[RushLake]

Well one thing is probably a given. The perps weren't evil white boys. Here all this time I thought the nativehyphen(south/central)Americans were living in a peaceful state of grace with their God(s) or lack thereof until the evil white man came to kill all of them.

[RushLake]

Sorry for the double post. These new fangled clicker things are tricky.

[LibertarianInExile]

"Bush did it."

Dammit, you beat me to it.

[IndyInVa]

OJ is still looking for the killers.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I wonder if this is the origin of that Guatemalan drug gang? Or perhaps nearby failed predecessors MS-1 or MS-2.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pharmboy. Sounds like predecessors of the Sandinistas in nearby Nicaragua.

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[Miss Marple]

How interesting. Someone wanted this entire city abandoned, and its rulers and their line eradicated, ina departure from usual conquest. I wonder why?

[SunkenCiv]

Power.

[BostonianRightist]

victims of murder and dismemberment in a war that destroyed the city and, it seems, served as a beginning of the collapse of the classic period of the Maya civilization.

You mean... There was war before the Republicans were in office?

...That's not what the MSM told me - it can't be true.

[Pharmboy]

Musta been Bushazuma handling this.

[aculeus]

Thanks for the ping. Interesting!

[wildbill]

Might also have been a revolt by the non-nobles after an event that shook their faith in the divinity of the king and his family.

They might still have buried them with some remaining vestige of respect--or out of fear of some sort of divine retribution cause by their lese majeste acts.


As a writer, I love to speculate on this stuff as it would make a great novel.

[libertylass]

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