Didn't the Maya civilization suffer from systematic erasure? Monks collected their books and had bonfires, called them devil-worshippers and threatened them to abandon their scripts and legends.
The few surviving ones are amazing though. I always hope that someday a hidden cache of preserved codices that somehow escaped destruction will be discovered, but it seems unlikely.
The few surviving ones are amazing though. I always hope that someday a hidden cache of preserved codices that somehow escaped destruction will be discovered, but it seems unlikely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices