The Lost Library of the Mayan Itza

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The Lost Library of the Mayan Itza

By Majestic77

The first time I ever met James Mills was at the Dallas airport. I wason my way back to Roatan, Honduras to hopefully locate a pirate

treasure, which I believed to be buried on the island. Little did I knowat the time that the story I was about to hear, if true, could lead to oneof the greatest discoveries in all of Mayan archaeology. Mills and I leftthe airport and got into his car. We headed off to some small Texas restaurant todiscuss his project. He seemed very secretive about it the whole time. He chainsmoked cigarettes as he drove down the highway, and started telling me how he firstgot involved with this project four years ago.

He had taken a trip to the south of Belize to do some exploring for Mayan ruins, deepin the jungles behind a Mayan city called Lubantan. The city's fame comes from thediscovery of the crystal skull by explorer Mitchell Hedges. Mills said that he started tohack his way through the jungle for several miles before becoming exhausted.

He never found anything and decided to quit for the day. As he began to walk back outof the jungle towards Lubantun, he came to a remote Mayan settlement. The Mayasthere were very friendly and invited him to stay the night. That evening, he sat aroundand discussed Maya history with one of the men from the village. The man told himthat he knew why he was here and that it was unnecessary for him to suffer so muchhiking through the jungle when he had what he was after in his hut.

Of course Mills was intrigued and the man came out bearing a large box of Mayanartifacts which he collected over the years. Mills gave them all a good inspection, butmost of it was very typical stuff: old Mayan whistles and broken pieces of pottery withsmall illegible paintings on them. Mills went to sleep in his hammock not sure of what

to do next when he noticed that there was a blue florescent glow coming from theinside of the box of artifacts. He immediately went to the box and found somethingunderneath all the artifacts was in fact glowing. He reached in and found himselftouching a large stone. He couldn't believe what he had in his hands, an ancient carved

piece of glowing stone.

In the morning, he asked his Mayan friend how much for the stone and was told$50US. Mills bought it and went on his way. He then told me how he got the stone outof the country. Mills had some friends in Honduras who helped him smuggle it toHonduras and then had it flown out of the country in a US Military cargo plane. Iasked him if I could see the stone and he said yes. We pulled over to a restaurant andhe opened up the trunk of his car. There it was, the stone, I could not believe my eyes!

After Mills had returned to the States, he had the tablet translated. He could notdisclose to me the person who translated it for him, but he could tell me what theysaid. This is where the story gets really interesting!

Apparently, the tablet is some kind of ancient Mayan map. Several of the ancient wellknown Maya ruins are located on it such as Tikal in Guatemala, Carcoel in Belize, aswell as several smaller sites such as Lubantuun and Xunatinich. There was one largeunknown site marked in the area southwest of Belize, deep in the Mayan Mountains


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behind Lubantun. He explained that according to recent archaeological maps ofSouthern Belize, modern archaeologists do not know of any major Mayan ruins in thatarea. After learning that his discovery may show the location of an unknown Mayanruin, Mills decided to return to Central America to do more research. He headed to thearchives in Guatemala City. It was there where he would find a piece of informationthat would bring his quest to a much higher level.

Several days after beginning his research in the Guatemala City, he stumbled acrossseveral documents relating to the fall of the Mayan City of Tayasal, which is now thecity of Flores; Guatemala built on top of its ruins. Tayasal was the last city to fall intothe hands of the Spanish during the Conquest. According to the documents, theSpanish had captured a Mayan priest and were demanding that he tell them thelocation of a shipment of Mayan codices that was sent. They were to be shipped fromthe city and hidden from the Spanish. The ancient Mayan were meticulous recordkeepers. Many of their ruins where used to observe the stars and were filled withvolumes of books that contained astronomical knowledge that they learned. These

books in Mayan lore are called codices. When the Spanish priests first saw the codices,they were thought to be the work of the devil and ordered all the books burned. The

famous priest De Landa was one of them. Thousands of volumes were lost to theflames, but it is believed there are three ancient codices left in the modern world.

As Mills continued his search through the documents, he came across one, which saidthat the only place the Maya could have shipped the codices to be hidden, was in the

jungles of southern Belize. It was the only place at the time not fully occupied by theSpanish. He then wondered if his unknown ruin in the jungles of southern Belize could

be the possible location of a hidden library. The documents also stated that the Mayanswould have left behind some kind of marker for future generations to find the library.Could the mysterious stone be that marker? There was only one way to find out andMills decided it was time for a second expedition into the jungles of southern Belize.

Mills explained to me the feeling he received from finding this information. It sent himinto waves of ecstasy as he left the archives for the chaotic streets of Guatemala City.As he was walked down the street, a strange man appeared in front of him and startedcursing him in Spanish. Throwing him off guard, a car approached and pulled up

beside him. Before he could start to comprehend what was happening, out of nowherehe was bashed on the head from behind which knocked him out cold. When he awokehe found himself lying on the floor of an old warehouse with his captors sitting acrossfrom him smoking cigarettes. One of them immediately walked up to him and placed akick in his ribs sending him back onto the floor. They yelled at him in Spanishdemanding to know what he was doing in Guatemala City and what he knew about theruins in Belize.

It was like something out of a bad movie, he explained. When he would not tell themanything, they strung him up by the feet in the warehouse and burned him with the

butts of their cigarettes, but he still would not talk. He showed me the marks on hisarms and stomach as he explained this part of the story to me. A few days later, theylet him go by dropping him off in some impoverished scary part of Guatemala Citywhere he wandered in a daze going without food for several days. He finally found ataxi, which took him back to the friendlier parts of the city. He couldn't make anysense of what happened and who was it that had kidnapped him. Was it the


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government? Was it random looters hoping to get their hands on an undiscoveredMayan ruin so they could loot it? All there was left to do now was to take anexpedition to the area and see if he could find the lost library of the Maya Itza.

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