Halley's Comet & Maya Kings

摘要

It's the evening of April 10, AD 531, in the city of Caracol, a regional political center located within the foothills of the Maya Mountains. The Moon set a few hours earlier, and a blanket of stars, concentrated overhead into a wispy Milky Way, is prominent in the pre-morning twilight. Suddenly, a brilliant shooting star streaks across the sky. Almost immediately, another star falls from the heavens, and then another.