Palenque and the Ancient Maya World | Nat Geo Live 

I am in Palenque right now. Come visit the ruins and spend a day in the rain forest. Then, afterward, you can stay in one of the many luxury resorts minutes away from the ruins. Amazing place and awesome people.

OMG, I am sure a lot of people after watching this video just want more. I mean both of them are great but David Stuart has this quiet passionate luxurious way of transmitting the fabulous wonders of the Maya people. David explanations of Palenque are marvelous, i hope and i am sure many people too, would wish somebody somewhere, will do more videos of David Stuart´s precious descriptions of mayan archeology. He definately is a door opener to the mysteries of those amazing mayas. Thank u David.

I got into the Maya because of a book by George Stuart that I bought from my neighbor at a yard sale for 50 cents. Because of that I became fascinated by The Maya and this fascination has taken me all over Mexico and Guatemala to visit ruins and learn more. I hope to one day meet David Stuart and thank him for having a father that opened up a wonderful world to me.

Gracias a Dios que los pinches Españoles no destruyeron estas obras de arte.

On my way for the 4th time -first time in 1971 - again in 1986 and about 10 years ago Looking forward to revisiting it with all the new insights from this video ... and other research

The city of Palenque was known by more than one name. One of them was Tok Tan, meaning Cloud Centre. Perhaps it was named that way because the city was build on the edge of a mountain. Another name is Lakam Ha. This one is much more appropriate I think. Lakam Ha means Great Water. In and around Palenque are various springs and creeks that flow through the forest. The Classic Maya name for the Palenque 'empire' is called B'aak. B'aak means 'bone' or 'captive' in Classic Maya.

this was an awesome video for me, i missed Palenque though. now that i have watched this video , i feel i am working hard to get back now... just going to even the most modest mayan ruins can send wonderful shivers down my spine

Beautiful! I visited Palenque in 2011!

David Stuart is the man! Juicy Juice! His father is ultra-cool too. People who get to get near him are the luckiest to me. He's really an inspiration and he has driven me nuts since high school and I'm in my forties. Man O Man Man on Man!

Homo sapiens got the Leakeys - the Maya got the Stuarts. It's a great priviledge to find a video of these two gentlemen, amid all the non-sensical videos about the so-called Mayan prophecies.

I have been to the site 2 times. I love Mexico. Once it was around Xmas time and it was so hot.

very good job. I recomended this book : Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens

36:39 I think that the palenque "astronaut" rappresents the dead King Pacal lying across his throne, his royal seat and the back throne is a wooden cross shaped like a totem with something that looks like a serpent around it.

The tomb lid was of Pakal in his souped up space car.

Went there on my overland trip from Mexico City to Panama City. Sundays were free entry! Guess what day I visited the ruins? Afterwards I headed for Belize.

What a great history of the Egyptians of Central & South America. Who knew! The Curators of this talk are fabulous, Many thanx! 😊

Very much enjoyed this video, I just wished there wasn't an advertisement every 3 minutes, it kills the flow of the video

Fue sorprendente ver a David dibujando y entendiendo glifos a los 13 años. Otra mente brillante! Y emocionante llevando las cenizas de Tatiana Proskouriakoff a Piedras Negras. Thanks David!

amazing that Schlieman was there. Got to see Pakal's tomb in Mexico city, @ the wonderful museum there, while visiting Teotihuacan. Great talk.

stunning, I want to see more

Nice indepth info and commentary on MAYAn Civilization. Bravo

Fantastic lecture

awesome... I LOVE HISTORY..

Seems this was where Throth the Atlantien Priest King who survived the Great Flood(10,000-12,00 B.C.)went to build pyrimids. & place the emerald tablets in the Halls of their Amenti,as in other pyrimid sites(Egypt conduit sites) also recived their cosmic esoteric wisdom of the stars,making King Pacal a true Star Messenger-among the South American Kings who held Sun High Tec. able to electrifiy Tesla way!His incarnation was Qusaqual,Palenque as other Mayan sites were great sites for these Star Messengers,& the Indians admitted they did not build these sites!

It looks much the same as it did when I had the experience of visiting in 1969.

Amazing lecture. Most educational. Thank You.

What exactly would someone dislike about this video?

Excellent. Thanks.

" Palenque" rocks!!!!!

I enjoyed this and learned a lot! Thank you!

@thedetective22 How did you come to that earth shattering conclusion?

I saw a video a while back that was about a large artifact found in Pacal’s tomb It was sort of in the shape of a rocket thruster. There was a picture of it in front of the pyramid where they said it was on display for some months or maybe a year before being taken away. It looked like it was about 6 feet tall. Was it a hoax? I can’t seem to find anything about it now.

Thanks 👍

At the 24:44 mark, I realized - didn't these early explorers know how to do a charcoal rubbing of these images and glyphs? Kids in preschool can do that.

Thank You, Wondrous Stuart’s!!!😘😘

I’m a proud to be maya descendent

VERY good and available for alll!

wayy too short ! but very good, tx!

well done

i am going to live there again, mayan ruins are that good. necesito mucho mas espangol. it took me 6 days and 1000dollars to see 5 sites and go snorkling? bring money for poor people and, nick-nacks, plus have a 1000 backup just in case. see Mexico City and Veracruz,,Campeche, Yucutan , bring your soul but be willing to pass up many people, for there are so many. the traffic is scary...sorry but thats true

I love your high quality videos, the views at 2:00 are amazing!

Love his video! Tks NG

Palengke is marker for Tagalog here in the Philippines

Very interesting.

RED QUEEN. Still wearing Jade jewels. And all her teeth. 🦷🦷🦷💋💀

I been there and it’s magic, almost 7 hours in a car thru very very bad roads

EXCELLENT...

i like this video so is great!!

Las figuras que estan al frente dan la impresion que son guardia que guardian los tesoros adrentro de el templo. y ellos le dierong tanta importancia que querian que el templo y la tumba estubiera siempre en guardia . A su principe Pakal .

There is a Indian channel called SANGAM TALKS that has a good video on MAYAN civilisation.

these sites must be protected-remember it was the indians themselves who cut down the whole scared Pine forest, so the gringos would stop coming to view the yellow monarch butterflys who migrate to Mexico on top of mountain once a year! Never underestimite the actions of ignorance-among all life forms...Nameste-no offence, my mother held Hopi-Lakota-Chyanne Scottish/Irish Spainard mix,while father was of Spainard/French,all of the noblitys who used their wealth to fund a new world,The Americas-thus here I am,a poor american-rich by these Historys of all our grand Past! Thanks to RU-vid & wise archaeologilists!

How could they have made a photograph in 1787?? Didn't photography onlu get started in the mid 19th century?? Cival war photos were some of the first, I thought.........

It is better then chitzen Itza but Tikal in Guatemala is better still.

what is the name of the opening song?

From la mulana

Hi I am a second grade I am learning palanqe

Terence McKenna. ✌️🌸👀 🍄 🇲🇽 🏔 🌴

@delinkasso explain?

I sure wish you guys have gotten there before the Smithsonian we would know a lot more about the Americas if there had been anyone other than the Smithsonian not willing to be bought

Cool

Jaykee the Wolf: hey, luis. why you think folk don't bother building these structures anymore? i mean, what made them stop? disease? Luis: government contracts. Jaykee the Wolf: oh. any difference?

palenque was a party center!

True to that :)

David is just dreamy. O.k. ? Now I can shut up!

Found you yeeeaahhh

TOO MANY ADS. JEEZ.

No entiendo bien el inglès, pero el solo hecho de ver que se trata de los Mayas el documental se me hace mucho muy interesante, alguien me puede decir si existe este mismo canal pero en idioma en español?

my math teacher made me watch this and makes me watch social studies videos, WHY?

HIS ANCESTORS WERE FRUITS ?

Do you know the maya or mayan is a sanskrit word ?? Want to know??

Lucky too have gone

look at the tassles behind him they are in the air, he is falling,as he must because he was not killed in battle or as a child. but he will rise in 2012. if you read the stellas in the temple of the follieated cross, to greet the sky gods.

that is my country guatemala the best =D

3 add in the first 3 min, so blurry it's unwatchable.

Adding the dots by divine science the scared Geom-math of it-noticed most are volcanic sites-mercury lakes-hum-part of the grand mall chain of volcanos-I'd say we are "In the hands of God-In La Mano de Dieos)-nothing to fear,eh- knowing how to live-live it right-I yell as Pedro Infante-he had the correct view-Life live it well-as for its mysterys clearley their are alot!

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Nice

mayas still exist...

Go

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pal en que but what about coo cool kan

uh-huh!

@TaePoDongIII wat

Quazaquatal mexica mexican origin lol

It's not what it means...

These days even North Indians joined Americans...lol...

dislike for ads

:O 2,666 videos!

no way does he believe all of this

The Indigenous people of the Americas are thousands of years older than previously thought. The Hopi history is written down in the ebook: The History of the Hopi from their origin on Lemuria. They say that they are at least 30,000 years old and are the ancestors of the Maya. Ancient texts, like the Indian Mahabharata and the Mayan Popol Vuh, tell us that the Earth suffers from a cycle of seven natural disasters. Those disasters are causing massive floods, earthquakes, firestorms and a bombardment of meteors every few thousand years. These disasters create a cycle of civilizations. One of these civilizations lives more than 10,000 years and reaches a higher level of knowledge and skills than we have now. Their civilization ended 20,000 years ago because of the next recurring disaster. Before they disappeared, they have built these huge temples all over Central and South-America. To learn much more about the cycle of civilizations, recurring floods, and ancient high technology, read the eBook:"Planet 9 = Nibiru". Search for: invisible nibiru 9

how did i get here??lol

Boring ! missing 99% of the fact way around the truth!

I came here to see what the boss "palenque" was...

OOF

How u like that fro n nose lol nope just mine see they maya people working on slab lol there u go Hawah Hawah Haya Haya Haya Haya Haya Haya Haya

ummm hmmm

to long video! !!!!!!!!!

This is a lecture, not a documentary...only a few slides of the actual sites. Long on academia fandom and short on updates or new technologies. Their estimate of the Mayan territory is probably much too small, there are indications the Maya were in the Eastern US maybe as far north as the Great Lakes.

to long video

@icyshadow0 Its the work of Satan! And the number 2,000 D: