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Yo this video is premium. Thank you. I've heard of this site before, and this video not only updated me on whats happening there now today, but you also helped me understand the history more and piece it all together. Also, your editing is REALLY F***ING GOOD. Keep doing that, where you add sourced photos and live map updates. That's what elevates this video to premium status.

Where is part 2?

The thing with the Mayan and Guatemalan people… they need no one else to survive and thrive.they are a completely self reliant people. I know, my husband is of the culture and kiche people, the prevalent Mayan civilization in his area, thriving still, today.

Perfectly crafted documentary. Enjoyed😊

Very interested in learning the results of the Japanese team using their 'Muan' technology. I had heard of it before when the scientist who created it used it on a volcano, in Japan, to learn the trail of lava and the size of the lava chamber. I believe it could be advantageous to utilize this technique on the emperor's mound in China. Excellent video.

Good to learn about ancient civilizations. The Mayas were great builders. Unbelievable to learn there are so many advanced civilizations around the world who built enormous and beautiful buildings from Borobudur to the pyramids of Egypt and Africa to the Indian temples and the structures found in China. To much to mention. Great.

This is brilliant, glued to the screen the whole time

We just returned from the Yucatan Mexico back to Greece. 13 days 8 cities, countless villages, 5 archaeological sites. An incredible trip

Thank you for very informative documentary video. I love the way how it is edited. What happened to the Japanese findings?

Great video!

Interesting but the amount of advertisement breaks in this was just way over the top

Oh baaby this is going to be a good one. The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, awesome.

Wow this is awesome

Love this.

Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I am so fortunate to work in this part of the world and feel so grateful for how many of these cities I have visited. LIDAR is going to show us so much more!

Very very very interesting!

Fascinating, thank you!

In the late 60s, my mom subscribed to a monthly "magazine" for teenagers. One was on Egypt, one on the Aztecs, the Incas, the Maya. They came with stickers to place on designated places. I was disappointed that the writing hadn't been solved. Then I heard that something, very much like the Rosetta Stone, had been found. All of this is so cool!

Question: if Copán only had 20,000 people living in it then how could they have possibly built such a spectacular city?

How do I watch part 2?

Thanks

What puzzles me is that nobody mentions that all of these steps are abnormally LARGE. Very big people would need to be stepping on these stairs. These structures are like huge seating thrones where they would walk up to and sit on and overlook upon everybody and be seen by all from all around. When they spoke from these rock podiums, the whole jungle could hear them speak. But nobody wants to say this for some weird reason. Yes I'm suggesting they're very gigantic people who led or were admired, even if they weren't the leaders. Maybe just occasional visitors who ruled over everybody and made announcements. Maybe they didn't even rule and they only guided on occasion.

I'm Mayan and so is my wife.

What stands out most in this series is that not one single Mayan was consulted in this entire two year excavation. The Mayans are not all gone. Mayan is still a spoken language in parts of Mexico and central America. I traveled with a Mayan shaman to all of the sites in the Yucatan peninsula and listened to his teachings, passed down to him for generations. He had a lot to say about the western interpretation of their culture. Most of these interpretations, he said, are wrong. You'd think archaeology would have decolonized itself by now.

My Mayan Ancestors Deserve The Truth Of Their Achievements World Wide Taught In Schools All Across America!

All this went on when Europe was not even developed properly, so the Spanish stole it and took it to Europe. I loved the documentary

It just hit me that our history or how we are known for is told by the leaders/kings and queens. We really need to do better! I hate to think how we are written about down the road.

A fantastic civilization

its amazing how the world got such amazing technologies after the supposed landing of aliens in the 50s and 60s

all these structures must of took a really long time to construct o.o

I wonder what it would cost, in modern times, to build a 9 story replica of a Mayan pyramid. Stone by stone.

I'm happy to see them using the tech in Copan because at least here if they find a void it will be explored further unlike in Egypt. Geeze that was so frustrating "hey we found this void" Egypt "okay pack up your tools thank you for coming" "maybe we'll look into it someday" to many politics in Egypt

I have mixed feelings about the documentary. In some parts, it feels too superficial. The part which I found the least impressive is about deciphering the Maya’s writing sign system. The break through was done by not a group of scholars but a Soviet scientist from Saint Petersburg, Yuri Knorozov. I could guess why his name was not mentioned but it diminishes scientific value of this documentary even more.

I love their culture. They were extremely advanced and far from "savage". They went through the same processes as many cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe. Europe wasn't much more advanced when they found the Mayan, Aztec and Inca. Yes, they had human sacrifice but so did Europeans before they became "civilized". I put civilized in quotations because I don't see people who had slaves and waged war over greed and hatred as civilized. They were savages, whether they believed it or not. And I can hear it now: "but the Indigenous peoples also did this". Yes, they did, but that just proves that Europeans weren't better than any of those around them even if they were ignorant enough to think so. The people of the Americas weren't around the cultures across the sea. The people in Asia and Europe had each other to help advance and they partially advanced together. But you cannot say that Europeans were the only advanced ones and they helped everyone. Far from it. Europeans benefited from much knowledge from Asia, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and other continents. Also, Europe didn't help much. Many Asian cultures advanced farther than Europeans without any assistance from Europeans. Many African cultures and American cultures were far more advanced in many things as well.

I love this history, it is so immersive. When I see the ruins today all cleaned up I think there must be some guy with a lawn mower keeping everything down lololol what a sight that would be

Years of study, and haven't got no further than a 5th grader! ❤

Enlightening to say the least. What a tedious excavation as bodys and artifacts become evident as they push further down the temple grounds

They did this without horses ,wheel 🙏🏼

Japan Started In Honduras called Copan

The mayans and the mongols are some of my favorite civilizations to research about.

Why did you guys just re-upload with a different title tonight? I mean, are y’all that hard up for content that you’re reposting the same videos every two weeks?

Why don’t you show the amazing carving on the top of Pakal’s tomb.

you know this was a real discovery...no humans can do this type pf work now a days lol real craftsmanship and care unbelievable work

Capan ❤

Good Doc, too many travelling shots

The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, Great....

just like everywhere else everyone only remember the rich kings not the servants who built everything

imagine their just chillin in their afterlife wither their sick jewellery and as soon as its taken off their corpse poof it disappears and there just like bro wtf

With complete seriousness, NASA should send a LIDAR-equipped probe to survey the surface. Including the poles. It would answer that one fundamental question: if formally 'wet' Mars harboured life, could that life have evolved a human-level intelligence?

Isn't this a old one? Am sure I watched this a couple years ago...

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It's weird how after watching this, in the hopes of youtube auto-playing something related to the mayans, it jumps to different channel and back to back plays roman history from the same channel. Very odd. Done this twice now.

Japanese archeologist are solid 👌

I bet they never showed the Olmec heads

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🇬🇹❤Guatemala the Mayan heart

I wish pundits would get away from this 'they needed a huge monument for agriculture' trope - they'd have to have excess food supply to allow building in the first place. Do they really imagine these people mastered massive masonry projects _before_ planting crops?

Sun earth ☀️🌋💥

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Excellent video, thanks. I have to say it feels wrong & disrespectful to dig up graves, though. Just saying…

"Astronomy that was incredibly precise, huge pyramids ...." yet they owe nothing to ancient Egypt? Ancient Aliens.

Why does a person interested in this subject also have to learn to appreciate the high strung music that 'vitalizes' every other frame? This is no way to learn.

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Can't believe that these people still worship those gods that's destroyed their civilization

I hope that people disturb the graves of every archeologist that has existed just like they disturbed so many souls. They study these cultures snd know how important their burials were.

Anyone want to fund a trip for me visit one of the pyramid. Always love ancient history but when people find out the look at me weird, guess because I'm black from the streets and with diamonds on I guess

I just love how they put México in central America knowing that’s part of North America and that my people the mayas and Aztecs are the true and only owners of the Americans.

Just another program all hipped up and nothing at the end of it!

as much as I enjoy the history, I always feel sad when they open peoples tombs/coffins. and it bothers me that the treasures are removed. yes we want to learn but do we really need their treasure on display. Although I have heard of looters steeling from coffins, for their own gain. Kama is likely to catch up with them anyway. But yeah, it just feels so wrong.

I love how she says the Mayan civilization was ran much like the ancient Greeks spanking many kingdoms with many but this is incorrect. Not at all like ancient Greece. The Greek civilization was ruled by one Emperor in an Empire that was divided up into City states the city states was controlled by the Senate's who was controlled my the Emperor. On the other hand the ancient Mayan civilization was controlled kings in each kingdom whom they had complete control over their kingdom and if they felt the need they would build allies with neighboring kingdoms or choose to go to war with them but it is very important to make note that they all thrived for so long for the fact each king respected each other and understood what was needed to care for their kingdom at aa great level of intelligence that is rarely exhibited in today's society

The equally way to present as valid and accepted knowledge as unknown makes me critically doubt the whole story depicted . To my understanding a less prejudiced and manipulated discourse would have been much more acceptable. I am a person of biological science and critical thinking was the first rule of thumb.

Mayan did human sacrifice right? I haven't heard anything about that.

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There is a grand correlation, of ancient Egypt, ancient Maya and ancient Japan. How? Think of Yonaguni, the underwater pyramid, off the coast of Japan. To better understand, Japan's grand history, archeological items must be discovered, at Giza, Egypt and Maya, Honduras. Perhaps, studying, at all three places, simultaneously;, might forge a wonderful physical event; an action, that might bring back, ancient interstellar beings. Who might save this war, ridden Earth. ( Wars, that have occurred through all history). It to my assumption that archeologists of Japan, will easily discover great findings of all three sites of antiquity. Why? Simply, the Japanese archeologists, aren't looking for items for riches, ( like British, German and American; researchers ). Japan, is looking for the home world, of their ancient lady, that was discovered centuries ago; whom came from a grand disc and who carried an UN-opened box and who didn't speak Japanese; but who might have inspired ancient Japanese, buildings. Note: Lesser known, is that Japan, is in an ongoing fight, with underground, interstellar beings, that do not recognize, Japan's, interstellar royal history. Thank You Shaun🦉of New York City

350 square km is not fast. It is just a city state, like the Greek polis.

See hand holding blade of sword? Square glif. Now look where finger goes Round with 3 dots Now do you all see anything different?

Anyone else think the mask on the thumbnail looks like Thomas the Tank Engine?

maybe the other kings are not found because there is no tomb as a result of being captured and killed

What happens to the kings and queen and their jade

How the hell do you know the name of the KING?????????

Yheyre thinking is different

The Mask!! Life imitates art imitates life!! 😲😲😲

Well, it seems that they were at an epic around the time of Pascal. With some kind of contact. Like the rest of the world , they left. After that we have all battled it out. Maybe we have all been given a taste of space and maybe even hybridized. Then they left. Or live in the sea. But they certainly do not show themselves to us directly.

Mayans? Great landscapers

We are that tightly in our ship Because the ship and I are 1

No, it did not collapse; it was destroyed in a cataclysm; from which only 8 remained alive.

My American continent is the most beautiful in the world 🌎 and its diversity of people, the ones that don't appreciate this diversity, get the hell out and go back to whatever they are from, there is no room for intolerance, let's work it out our differences and live in harmony.

Leave rhe trees alone

They like Kemet

Modern day grave robbers

they can't find a telescope doesn't means the Mayan's don't have any

Only 20000 people lived in that area. I'm calling bullzit

I'm my state Colón Honduras 🇭🇳 the indigenous people Were more like carib ,pech Arawak , or the fish oister crab eating people, and also the the "white city "of the" monkey king " resent ly discover

The Mayan state of the Quran is inside. And then history's yajuj majuj high mountains are there and this is where their old history is.

3000 years? Really?

The assumptions are insane. Boo

AMEN IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME

Elon musk. Your money is no good here, said the mayan elder thirteen century?

This was a great piece. Except for when that guy said they were able to track bodies across the sky "as good if not slightly better than we do today". Come on bro. They were advanced in this field for their time sure but lets not make completely silly claims like a graham hancock doc.

Please stop abusing the word "dynasty." Only the Egyptians were a dynasty. Not everyone was inbreeding, just the Egyptians. Throughout the America's we the native people's believe that insest is taboo!