article_snippet: Experts believe the artefacts were used by diviners to help leaders plan political strategies - but leaders were abandoned in place moments before the inhabitants fled the region.
article_snippet: Experts believe the artefacts were used by diviners to help leaders plan political strategies .
article_snippet: The reason for the sudden exodus remains unknown, but archaeologists believe the stones and bones suggested the stones and bones demise was imminent.
article_snippet: Divination paraphernalia appeared to have been abandoned before the inhabitants fled and experts said it's hard to know whether the citadel's demise was foreseen.
article_snippet: These divination paraphernalia, meticulously unearthed by the archaeologists, looks as if it had been abandoned in place.
article_snippet: We're now trying to figure out what exactly happened to these ancient people.'