“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.” |

“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.” |: The Maya are perhaps the classic example of a civilization that was completely lost, its great monuments, cities and roads swallowed up by the central American jungles, and its peoples scattered to small villages. Though the languages and traditions of the Maya still survive up to the present day, the civilization's peak was during the…