The Mayan Dark Age
The Mayan Dark Age is No Longer a Mystery
The main idea of this article is about how archaeologists have recently found what may have been the cause of the mayan “dark age”. The Mayan civilization was considered the most advanced for humans before the europeans arrived. The Mayans created a writing system, accurate maps, and huge pyramids that we can still see today. The Mayan dark age is an event that happened in 540 A.D. during a 100 year period the mayans stopped all research and construction and no one has been able to explain why until recently. Michael Sigl, a chemist in Switzerland found that a volcano must have exploded from studying tree rings, which he found sulfur particles in. The explosion caused the temperature to drop
The main idea of this article is about how archaeologists have recently found what may have been the cause of the mayan “dark age”. The Mayan civilization was considered the most advanced for humans before the europeans arrived. The Mayans created a writing system, accurate maps, and huge pyramids that we can still see today. The Mayan dark age is an event that happened in 540 A.D. during a 100 year period the mayans stopped all research and construction and no one has been able to explain why until recently. Michael Sigl, a chemist in Switzerland found that a volcano must have exploded from studying tree rings, which he found sulfur particles in. The explosion caused the temperature to drop