If You Think This Maya City Has Nothing to Do With Black History—Watch This. Standing at the Altun Ha ruins in Belize, I’m reminded of something the world never wanted us to know: Black history and Indigenous history are connected, brilliant, and ancient. The Maya who built this city were astronomers, engineers, architects, and master planners—just like the civilizations in Nubia, Kush, Ethiopia, and Kemet. But in school? We’re taught that civilization started in Europe. Altun Ha exposes that li