Vanquished by the Spanish empire, little remains of the aztec and mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artifac...Vanquished by the Spanish empire, little remains of the aztec and mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artifact so powerful-so deadly-that it was known throughout the americas as "The Death Relic.