[nopenotthat]

> Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned

If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their complex social culture until ~750BC & the earliest sculptural examples of Maya script are ~300BC.

It’s extremely unlikely any books the Spanish burned dated back until then but that’s the likely earliest they would have been.

Still a massive cultural crime & attempted genocide tho

[wongarsu]

Actual texts might only span ~1900 years, but if they are anything like European cultures their texts also contain written recordings of oral tradition. That would extend the time window, though with decreased accuracy.