The Maya Codices: The Precious Remaining History of an Eradicated Civilization
The Maya were a powerful pre-Columbian civilization who thrived between AD 600 – AD 800. They were literate, had a complex language including pictograms, glyphs, and phonetic representations. They even produced books called codices, some of which were reported to detail 800 years of their history.
Source: ancient-origins.net