This is pretty exciting stuff:
“Balaj Chan K’awiil was born to privilege and given a kingdom, but he sold out to the enemy, defeated his former benefactors in battle and celebrated the victory by sacrificing the brother who mentored him.
This Shakespeare-like tale can be found inscribed in newly discovered Mayan hieroglyphics in the limestone stairs of a 7th-century pyramid at Dos Pilas, tucked away in the Peten rain forest of central Guatemala.”
