stelae

It's actually consistent with the evidence that displaced Mycenaean peoples are the Sea Peoples as recorded in Egyptian stelae.

All of the cultures you've listed constructed stone stelae with writing, like the Rosetta stone.

And even ancient romans wrote eulogies and raised funeral stelae for their dogs.

The Mayans did leave lots of stelae around, and recorded a wealth of chronological information on them using a rather precise calendrical system.

Mostly just dry names, dates and events are recorded in stone stelae.

Which still leaves stelae as already mentioned.

One thing I’ve heard historians mention, that is like to know more about, is that these law stelae, while impressive, aren’t actually referenced in legal cases during their time.

If the Egyptians were just content to build mudbrick cities, rather than erecting pyramids, colossal stone statues, stelae, obelisks, and the like, they would be much harder to detect.

The only thing I found ironic: "If you're going to record a historical occurrence, you can't beat a good stelae.

If you want to research ancient near eastern "Social history" (term of art), looking at stelae and king lists is not going to be particularly helpful.

> The nearly 800 pieces “of exceptional rarity and inestimable value”, including stelae, amphorae and other items, came from clandestine excavations in Puglia, in Italy’s south-eastern tip, according to the carabinieri in charge of cultural heritage.

The version of the article that I see says: > The nearly 800 pieces “of exceptional rarity and inestimable value”, including stelae, amphorae and other items, came from clandestine excavations in Puglia in Italy’s south-eastern tip, according to the carabinieri in charge of cultural heritage.

It is not clear that the Teotihuacanos had no writing system despite the lack of durable preserved forms (Stelae, etc) that other contemporary cultures used.