*My favorite civilization. The Maya were super advanced and highly intelligent. The more I learn about them, the MORE fascinated I am of them. I visited four archaelogical sites: Ek Balam, Coba, Chichén Itzá and Tulum. I met Mayan people and learned some words in their language. An Amazing and unforgettable experience!*
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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.
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.
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!
Mayan was deciphered by a Soviet linguist towards the end of the 50s and beginning of the 60s. However, his findings were not accepted by Thompson, who was considered the greatest authority on Mayan culture, and therefore by the archaeological circle. This did not change until Thompson's death in 1976, and it is from then on that great steps in that direction began to be made by new members of the Western archaeological community using what was discovered by the linguist.
Sometimes I wonder if their languages and beliefs were really deciphered or if people just made up some bs and rolled with it like much of modern "science."
@@kagusconthe Mayan civilization was NOT comparable to the "other" civilizations. Their invention of the calendar and understanding of astronomy THOUSANDS of years ago is something we would struggle to do even to this day with modern technology. To say "all civilization" were the "same" at that time is an insult to their achievements and understanding of the world. The same can be said about their understanding of otherworldly topics as well.
@@highpsiguy4085the Mesopotenian societies and Eastern , Egyptian etc. had reached the same level. It just needs observation and a logical mind. That is something humans have and need all over the world.
Mayan people are still alive and the Mayan language is spoken throughout the region. It's more percise to say, "what happened to the ancient Mayan cities and social structures?", instead of making it seem like all Mayan people completely disappeared.
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!
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.
@@FearEeatsTheSoul NO, they aren’t. Can’t you read?! There are still Mayan people, Mayan language, Mayan blood, Mayan culture STILL AROUND TODAY. Go to Central America, your ignorance is disgusting.
@@KaelynMoran Hello fellow Guatemalan. Mayan culture existed only in central America. if you don't know the difference between central and south America, please open a book and learn some geography. 2nd of all mayan culture is absolutely not thriving. they live in huts and extreme poverty.. most "Mayan" communities cant even read. The Mayan culture was crushed and the ones living today are just living in denial.
what an intriguing video! i really appreciate the depth of information about the ancient Mayan cities. however, i can't help but wonder if we might be overestimating their scale and significance compared to other ancient civilizations. it's fascinating, but was the Maya really as advanced as we're led to believe, or are we projecting modern values onto their achievements?
@@dustybees6308 It´s true - but even throughout southern Mexico, INAH continues to use "Mayan" in instances where some intellects say it should be Maya. Makes it truly confusing.
@@dustybees6308 grammar police no one cares about your grammar rulesets, everyone understands the sentence but you's, you are the special one for not understanding
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.
Exactly - the Maya had use of the number Zero, had incredible astronomical observations and data, were amazing architects, artists, and their nobility performed excruciatingly painful blood sacrifices on themselves too. In Europe, fanatics were burning women at the stake, and the torture endured by countless thousands over several centuries was worse than modern horror movies....
Sorry but they did not have human sacrifices, that part was made up by the conquistadors to justify all the masacres they did during the conquest of Mexico, there is no evidence at all..
By the way, in Mesoamerican cultures there were also slaves. In fact, that was one of the objectives of the wars since it was the kings and nobles who were sacrificed, while the others captured were enslaved. They imposed a ruler on the defeated city, marrying him to the highest-ranking woman and thus being able to maintain control of the conquered city. It was the Mexica (Aztec) who changed the game by sacrificing all those captured and fighting only to capture future sacrifices, performing ritual cannibalism and even using the skins of the defeated and animals as armor The Incas in South America, for example, used the skin of the defeated to make drums. I agree that Europeans do not have to feel superior to American cultures prior to their arrival, but neither are they inferior. Throughout the world and throughout history, human beings have been responsible for carrying out atrocities, sometimes in the name of religion (such as the crusades, the religious wars of the 16th century) and others because they feel that they can simply do it because it is their right. (from Rome and Genghis Khan to European colonialism in Africa in the 19th century or the taking of their lands and lives from the Indians in the US in the 19th century or from the Australian and Tasmanian aborigines in the UK in the 19th and 20th centuries)
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What a fascinating deep dive into Mayan cities! The visuals were stunning and really brought the ancient world to life. I do wonder, though, if the scale of the cities has been somewhat exaggerated. It seems like there’s a tendency to romanticize ancient civilizations, while the everyday realities of their society might be glossed over. Just my two cents!
@@showbread9366as an Archaeological Surveyor, I can assure you that all of our findings are published. Just because you aren't smart enough to find them or understand them, doesn't mean we're hiding anything. Sharing our results is literally how we secure funding to continue our research, you clown. We work for universities and research institutions. Hiding our findings serves no purpose, and yields no benefit.
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.
This current time will be written as the darkest, most corrupt and deceptive time in history where the entire world was deceived, including the leaders.
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
@@BabyJesus-nz4nmthe core limestone in the Giza pyramids came from roughly 400 miles away, not 550. The outer blocks were quarried from Tula, which was directly across the Nile. Your estimates are likely flawed, as you seem to be basing the cost on a bunch of unnecessary logistics.
@@panzerswinefluthe workers who built the pyramids were paid workers, not slaves. They were paid in honey, grain, gold, and beer. We literally have ancient Egyptian pay stubs on clay tablets, written in cuneiform, in the Cairo Museum.
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
The Mesoamerican cultures were in the bronze age, they were much less advanced than Europe at the time, they didn't know the wheel or the arch, even Egypt and Rome were ,more advanced than them
I’m not so sure about the part of not having the wheel. Any monkey could of learned that round stones, and logs, roll. Just by watching gravity shit roll down a hill. I don’t know why people think it’s impossible for ancients to carve a wheel. Look at some of their wheel shaped jade earrings. I know for a fact the ancient Egyptians had chariots. A chariot is basically a trailer. And they had beast of burden, like domesticated horses, and oxen. To pull a “chariot”-“trailer” loaded down with stone. In Peru they uncovered a little carved lama, or alpaca, on 4 wheels. It was a ancient toy. That a kid can pull around on a string.
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.
You have to listen better, so you don’t only hear. He is talking about an specific text not about decifering the writing system, furthermore their are also no other lunguists mentioned. Decifering an writing system is always an group effort untill one person suddenly has a brain wave.
Yeah and this documentary is making it seem like the evidence for Mayan warfare is discovered. And saying they were better at astrology than we are today... They were absolutely genius astrologers, but to say they're better than we are today is kinda laughable.
Just started watching and recently found out small pox brought in by exploring wiped em out in only 200 years. Shocking revelation when you think about it.😮
Then where do all these earthquake resistant skyscrapers come from? How are we building space craft, if we can't build a stone building? The amount of ignorance ot takes to say something like that, when we are literally building aircraft that can break the sound barrier, and buildings that dwarf these, while simultaneously creating a Large Hadron Collider that literally recreates the Big Bang, is absolutely laughable. Leave the thinking to folks who don't have a head full of candy corn.
Look into modern Egyptology. They've not only uncovered new "lesser class" ruins and mummies, but they're starting to focus a lot on the "real" and "common folk" that MADE the ancient Egyptian civilization as we know it.
I believe they were fascinated with the stars above because it reveals more then just time but the beginning of events. Most importantly the beginning of the end (catastrophic events) It’s never touched on by archeologists. They were not just fascinated by astronomy because of crops and seasons but to protect themselves from harm
How do I contact Mr René Viel? He deserves to know something. I’d like to pass that something along about his studies… it will make things make more sense by laws of physics….. these guys were masters of physics. I researched India’s India’s all the way around to the Americas. It’s brilliant. I’d like to pass that along to him on what would make it brilliant and how he can find it in their glyph system.
What secrets about the rise and fall of the Maya civilization can be uncovered through the discovery of ancient tombs and artifacts like those found in Copan and Palenque?
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.
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.
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
If we can have train terminals under the ocean; all pyramids are connected underground; in fact all living is probably under ground or under oceans or mountains.
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.
In general terms, I understand what you are saying. As far as the shaman you traveled with, how do you know what he was telling you was correct? I went to Chichen Itza two different times and hired two different Mayan guides. Neither of them could read the inscriptions (my last visit was 2006) and both told me that the ability to read those inscriptions was lost to time. They did share much of their culture with me, but it was significantly different than their ancestors, whose lives they did not know in detail.
The only thing that I agree with is that you're right, we didn't die out, or vanish. We're still here. That is a fact, not a belief. Everything else is subjective
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?
Is it possible that the reason Maya cities were seemingly randomly abandoned and resettled periodically, the roads and the calendar are linked? Perhaps the roads are only connected to certain cities is because they would periodically migrate between the cities in any linked group, leaving one or more in the chain abandoned each time they moved? This could be related to their cyclical view of time or some other religious or astrological reason. The main reason I wonder this is because religious pilgrimages seem to actually be fairly common in the cultures of the Americas.
The Mayas in El Salvador left when the Ilopango volcano erupted in 400CE or 500CE but they left buildings. In 1200 another way of people came in from Mexico and they were the nahua speaking people and were later known as "pipiles".
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.
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.
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!
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?
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’ve read it was so that the “higher ruler” I think that’s the right word was High above everyone else and so that people that wanted to go up the pyramid had to climb up the stones so it was as if they were almost bowing and showing obedience to there “higher ruler”
why does big steps mean big people. I mean all over the US there’s steps that aren’t high but are very wide, does that mean that all united states citizens have giant legs and/or feet, no, it doesn’t. It could simply be artistic or symbolic just like wide, flat steps are used now.
@@zackeryhoven1361Nice cover story. Also, should the royalty also be bowing as they are climbing up the stairs? No. But yeah, those who are of higher level (think about what higher may really mean}, would probably be comfortably going up these steps as they are much larger creatures.
The artistically designed steps that we have in our "modern" time never make it extremely difficult to walk up the steps. In fact, artistic steps you reference always continue to make it comfortable and convenient for one to walk across as you're lifting your legs up across them. Such steps as these of this video are clearly made for a larger creature. A larger human or other. Whatever it was designed for to be climbing these steps at a convenient pace and comfort height is clearly a larger creature than what we have in our time.
35:52 "In Maya society competition and power struggles were widespeead. War was really important for the Maya". And so too for the Americans in the USA. The Maya civilization is gone and civilization (if you can call it that) in the USA will also disappear.
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We just returned from the Yucatan Mexico back to Greece. 13 days 8 cities, countless villages, 5 archaeological sites. An incredible trip
no one cares
@@mustardbrown It obviously disturbed you and your miserable life
@@souloukex6680 not at all. literally no one cares.
@@mustardbrown Oh but you do - otherwise you wouldn´t comment. How sad....
@@coppermoontravelsthanks for informing me
*My favorite civilization. The Maya were super advanced and highly intelligent. The more I learn about them, the MORE fascinated I am of them. I visited four archaelogical sites: Ek Balam, Coba, Chichén Itzá and Tulum. I met Mayan people and learned some words in their language. An Amazing and unforgettable experience!*
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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.
The Khmer at Angkor-massive!
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.
* muon
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!
Mayan was deciphered by a Soviet linguist towards the end of the 50s and beginning of the 60s. However, his findings were not accepted by Thompson, who was considered the greatest authority on Mayan culture, and therefore by the archaeological circle. This did not change until Thompson's death in 1976, and it is from then on that great steps in that direction began to be made by new members of the Western archaeological community using what was discovered by the linguist.
Sometimes I wonder if their languages and beliefs were really deciphered or if people just made up some bs and rolled with it like much of modern "science."
Thank you for very informative documentary video. I love the way how it is edited. What happened to the Japanese findings?
My Mayan Ancestors Deserve The Truth Of Their Achievements World Wide Taught In Schools All Across America!
They achieved the same thing other cultures did. We're all smart.
@@kagusconhe didn't say otherwise
@@kagusconthe Mayan civilization was NOT comparable to the "other" civilizations. Their invention of the calendar and understanding of astronomy THOUSANDS of years ago is something we would struggle to do even to this day with modern technology. To say "all civilization" were the "same" at that time is an insult to their achievements and understanding of the world. The same can be said about their understanding of otherworldly topics as well.
@@highpsiguy4085the Mesopotenian societies and Eastern , Egyptian etc. had reached the same level. It just needs observation and a logical mind. That is something humans have and need all over the world.
@@highpsiguy4085every civilization is comparable with every other civilization as a matter of fact. To compare is not judging if done objective.
Mayan people are still alive and the Mayan language is spoken throughout the region. It's more percise to say, "what happened to the ancient Mayan cities and social structures?", instead of making it seem like all Mayan people completely disappeared.
what does it matter, mayans did not build those pyramids anyways. they found them and repurposed them.
@kokakolagodcomp-vi2yv perhaps the Mayans ancestors build them back in the ancien days
@@juan-ksporty7348 that's highly unlikely as the same megalithic building techniques are found in japan, egypt, turkey, lebanon, rapa nui etc.
@@kokakolagodcomp-vi2yv some researches believe Hermès was the architect of the Egypt pyramids
@@juan-ksporty7348 did hermes ever write about ammonia, sulphuric acid manufacturing plants? that's what the pyramids were.
Where is part 2?
yeah, where's part 2?
@@mikkelhong8566 Where is part 2?
there's a part 2?
There's gotta be a Part 2
Is it Jojo part 2 or this video's part 2?
The content is always so well thought out and executed. Great job!
This is brilliant, glued to the screen the whole time
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!
I'm Mayan and so is my wife.
This is an ex-parrot!
Well don't snitch
Thank you for creating this.
How do I watch part 2?
anyone
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.
Mayan’s are gone lady.
@@FearEeatsTheSoul NO, they aren’t. Can’t you read?! There are still Mayan people, Mayan language, Mayan blood, Mayan culture STILL AROUND TODAY. Go to Central America, your ignorance is disgusting.
@@FearEeatsTheSoul they actually are not gone, Mayan culture still thrives in communities in South America, my family is of Mayan decent 🇬🇹
Meaningless derp.
@@KaelynMoran Hello fellow Guatemalan. Mayan culture existed only in central America. if you don't know the difference between central and south America, please open a book and learn some geography. 2nd of all mayan culture is absolutely not thriving. they live in huts and extreme poverty.. most "Mayan" communities cant even read. The Mayan culture was crushed and the ones living today are just living in denial.
Thanks for the content! ❤
Thank you for the perfect documentary, really enjoyed it :)
Wow this is awesome
what an intriguing video! i really appreciate the depth of information about the ancient Mayan cities. however, i can't help but wonder if we might be overestimating their scale and significance compared to other ancient civilizations. it's fascinating, but was the Maya really as advanced as we're led to believe, or are we projecting modern values onto their achievements?
Very very very interesting!
How does the use of technology, such as muon imaging and lidar, change our understanding of ancient Maya cities and their hidden structures?
Pakal's jade mask from 216 pieces with T-tav symbol in the mouth= pure ASTRONOMY!
Oh baaby this is going to be a good one. The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, awesome.
Maya. Mayan is the language.
@@dustybees6308 It´s true - but even throughout southern Mexico, INAH continues to use "Mayan" in instances where some intellects say it should be Maya. Makes it truly confusing.
@@dustybees6308 grammar police no one cares about your grammar rulesets, everyone understands the sentence but you's, you are the special one for not understanding
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.
Exactly - the Maya had use of the number Zero, had incredible astronomical observations and data, were amazing architects, artists, and their nobility performed excruciatingly painful blood sacrifices on themselves too. In Europe, fanatics were burning women at the stake, and the torture endured by countless thousands over several centuries was worse than modern horror movies....
I have always felt that way!
Sorry but they did not have human sacrifices, that part was
made up by the conquistadors to justify all the masacres they
did during the conquest of Mexico, there is no evidence at all..
By the way, in Mesoamerican cultures there were also slaves. In fact, that was one of the objectives of the wars since it was the kings and nobles who were sacrificed, while the others captured were enslaved. They imposed a ruler on the defeated city, marrying him to the highest-ranking woman and thus being able to maintain control of the conquered city.
It was the Mexica (Aztec) who changed the game by sacrificing all those captured and fighting only to capture future sacrifices, performing ritual cannibalism and even using the skins of the defeated and animals as armor
The Incas in South America, for example, used the skin of the defeated to make drums.
I agree that Europeans do not have to feel superior to American cultures prior to their arrival, but neither are they inferior. Throughout the world and throughout history, human beings have been responsible for carrying out atrocities, sometimes in the name of religion (such as the crusades, the religious wars of the 16th century) and others because they feel that they can simply do it because it is their right. (from Rome and Genghis Khan to European colonialism in Africa in the 19th century or the taking of their lands and lives from the Indians in the US in the 19th century or from the Australian and Tasmanian aborigines in the UK in the 19th and 20th centuries)
That was the olmec that made the calendar and not the Mayans.
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How were the Mayans cutting stone? Being Mexican American, I love this Mesoamérica archeology stuff. Have to revisit the subject every few weeks lol.
Imagine using cutting-edge space technology to discover a long-lost tomb-like an ancient version of Google Maps but for treasure hunting! 🤯
Enlightening to say the least. What a tedious excavation as bodys and artifacts become evident as they push further down the temple grounds
What a fascinating deep dive into Mayan cities! The visuals were stunning and really brought the ancient world to life. I do wonder, though, if the scale of the cities has been somewhat exaggerated. It seems like there’s a tendency to romanticize ancient civilizations, while the everyday realities of their society might be glossed over. Just my two cents!
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The mayans and the mongols are some of my favorite civilizations to research about.
Years of study, and haven't got no further than a 5th grader! ❤
It is meant for people everywhere not only scientists.
"haven't got no further"? Are you sure you even graduated the 5th grade?
Rather they won’t actually share with the world any findings beyond what they would share with a 5th grader.
correct @@showbread9366
@@showbread9366as an Archaeological Surveyor, I can assure you that all of our findings are published. Just because you aren't smart enough to find them or understand them, doesn't mean we're hiding anything. Sharing our results is literally how we secure funding to continue our research, you clown. We work for universities and research institutions. Hiding our findings serves no purpose, and yields no benefit.
all these structures must of took a really long time to construct o.o
Fascinating, thank you!
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.
This current time will be written as the darkest, most corrupt and deceptive time in history where the entire world was deceived, including the leaders.
The stairs… 😳 Omg, those are some steep stairs! 😮 The vertigo hits me through the screen, I might be able to get UP them, but DOWN? Nonononono…🤢 13:20
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 wonder what it would cost, in modern times, to build a 9 story replica of a Mayan pyramid. Stone by stone.
@@BabyJesus-nz4nm I knew it would cost a lot. How did Egyptians pay for it all?
@@8arrowsthey weren't paying materials and probably not labor either
They couldn't do it successfully or accurately with all their modern machines.. Impossible!
@@BabyJesus-nz4nmthe core limestone in the Giza pyramids came from roughly 400 miles away, not 550. The outer blocks were quarried from Tula, which was directly across the Nile. Your estimates are likely flawed, as you seem to be basing the cost on a bunch of unnecessary logistics.
@@panzerswinefluthe workers who built the pyramids were paid workers, not slaves. They were paid in honey, grain, gold, and beer. We literally have ancient Egyptian pay stubs on clay tablets, written in cuneiform, in the Cairo Museum.
Love this.
Why don’t you show the amazing carving on the top of Pakal’s tomb.
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
Does it have a second part of the episode of it hasn't come out I'm really into what they discovered
its amazing how the world got such amazing technologies after the supposed landing of aliens in the 50s and 60s
More like during ww2 and after destroying Germany. Weapons & space race.
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
The Mesoamerican cultures were in the bronze age, they were much less advanced than Europe at the time, they didn't know the wheel or the arch, even Egypt and Rome were ,more advanced than them
The Spanish conquered them fair and square. They were truly badass, unlike modern weakling slaves.
They did this without horses ,wheel 🙏🏼
I’m not so sure about the part of not having the wheel. Any monkey could of learned that round stones, and logs, roll. Just by watching gravity shit roll down a hill. I don’t know why people think it’s impossible for ancients to carve a wheel. Look at some of their wheel shaped jade earrings.
I know for a fact the ancient Egyptians had chariots. A chariot is basically a trailer. And they had beast of burden, like domesticated horses, and oxen. To pull a “chariot”-“trailer” loaded down with stone.
In Peru they uncovered a little carved lama, or alpaca, on 4 wheels. It was a ancient toy. That a kid can pull around on a string.
Great video!
The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, Great....
The mysterious ones that came before the Maya and Inca and constructed the most impressive megaliths worldwide are who fascinate me.
A fantastic civilization
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.
You have to listen better, so you don’t only hear. He is talking about an specific text not about decifering the writing system, furthermore their are also no other lunguists mentioned. Decifering an writing system is always an group effort untill one person suddenly has a brain wave.
Commentary in English may have Simplified😊😊😊
Yes, Yuri contributed immensely.
Yeah and this documentary is making it seem like the evidence for Mayan warfare is discovered. And saying they were better at astrology than we are today...
They were absolutely genius astrologers, but to say they're better than we are today is kinda laughable.
@@BSIII certainly astrology, but I think he was talking about astronomy.
Interesting but the amount of advertisement breaks in this was just way over the top
When you watch a show there are commercial breaks. About 20 minutes and a 40 minute video which is an hour slot on TV. Chill.
@@handsanitizer5127 wtf is TV?
Just started watching and recently found out small pox brought in by exploring wiped em out in only 200 years. Shocking revelation when you think about it.😮
Question: if Copán only had 20,000 people living in it then how could they have possibly built such a spectacular city?
Only need a few hundred. 1,000 workers would be ridiculous.
They’re Mexican they only needed a crew of 12
Ingenuity.
The same way Egyptians built the pyramids
@@CDLCDL702😆 good one
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
Then where do all these earthquake resistant skyscrapers come from? How are we building space craft, if we can't build a stone building? The amount of ignorance ot takes to say something like that, when we are literally building aircraft that can break the sound barrier, and buildings that dwarf these, while simultaneously creating a Large Hadron Collider that literally recreates the Big Bang, is absolutely laughable. Leave the thinking to folks who don't have a head full of candy corn.
Air mattress, the Maya would be so proud!
Japan Started In Honduras called Copan
Thanks
There is a reason why the Maya were in that place on the Earth. Still a mystery. So is their genius that no other had
Guatemala The Mecca of the Mayan civilization that still lives on today
🇬🇹❤Guatemala the Mayan heart
just like everywhere else everyone only remember the rich kings not the servants who built everything
Look into modern Egyptology. They've not only uncovered new "lesser class" ruins and mummies, but they're starting to focus a lot on the "real" and "common folk" that MADE the ancient Egyptian civilization as we know it.
Isn't this a old one? Am sure I watched this a couple years ago...
I believe they were fascinated with the stars above because it reveals more then just time but the beginning of events. Most importantly the beginning of the end (catastrophic events)
It’s never touched on by archeologists. They were not just fascinated by astronomy because of crops and seasons but to protect themselves from harm
How do I contact Mr René Viel? He deserves to know something. I’d like to pass that something along about his studies… it will make things make more sense by laws of physics….. these guys were masters of physics. I researched India’s India’s all the way around to the Americas. It’s brilliant. I’d like to pass that along to him on what would make it brilliant and how he can find it in their glyph system.
The tracking of the sun represents their building alignments for heat absorption and distribution day and night.
The instructions on veils structures are also the instructions for the operation or the temple.
What secrets about the rise and fall of the Maya civilization can be uncovered through the discovery of ancient tombs and artifacts like those found in Copan and Palenque?
Asians
Capan ❤
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.
Where is the next video?
Good Doc, too many travelling shots
Japanese archeologist are solid 👌
Why are the steps do high?
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.
Lol, dude, you look like you're 99% of Spanish-Italian descent. You're white, you don't own anything :D
I am Miwok and you are a liar.
I bet they never showed the Olmec heads
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
I meant many kingdoms with many kings at the first part of my message 😅
@@haleybrewer3003have you ever read about Greek history. It doesn’t show.
Lol no you obviously don't know Greek history.
Copan brautiful Im love
You don't know Greek history and you don't know Mayan history.
It seems that technology is only allowed to go so high; then it is destroyed.
If we can have train terminals under the ocean; all pyramids are connected underground; in fact all living is probably under ground or under oceans or mountains.
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.
Was the shaman's name T'zec?
Does the shaman preserve the traditional practice of human sacrifice? Better not turn your back to him. 😂
In general terms, I understand what you are saying. As far as the shaman you traveled with, how do you know what he was telling you was correct?
I went to Chichen Itza two different times and hired two different Mayan guides. Neither of them could read the inscriptions (my last visit was 2006) and both told me that the ability to read those inscriptions was lost to time. They did share much of their culture with me, but it was significantly different than their ancestors, whose lives they did not know in detail.
You dont ask a greek person to tell you the culture of ancient greece do you?
The only thing that I agree with is that you're right, we didn't die out, or vanish. We're still here. That is a fact, not a belief. Everything else is subjective
Places without flowers are not for me.
What?...
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?
No
nasa...
it would not answer that question lol.
Is it possible that the reason Maya cities were seemingly randomly abandoned and resettled periodically, the roads and the calendar are linked? Perhaps the roads are only connected to certain cities is because they would periodically migrate between the cities in any linked group, leaving one or more in the chain abandoned each time they moved? This could be related to their cyclical view of time or some other religious or astrological reason. The main reason I wonder this is because religious pilgrimages seem to actually be fairly common in the cultures of the Americas.
The Mayas in El Salvador left when the Ilopango volcano erupted in 400CE or 500CE but they left buildings. In 1200 another way of people came in from Mexico and they were the nahua speaking people and were later known as "pipiles".
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 king's jade mask is same as ancient korean king's mask. They also used a lot of jade jewelries. DNA analysis should be done to find out.
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.
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!
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?
Some Maya states near the sea consumed fish. The Yucatan peninsula does not have good soil.
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’ve read it was so that the “higher ruler” I think that’s the right word was High above everyone else and so that people that wanted to go up the pyramid had to climb up the stones so it was as if they were almost bowing and showing obedience to there “higher ruler”
why does big steps mean big people. I mean all over the US there’s steps that aren’t high but are very wide, does that mean that all united states citizens have giant legs and/or feet, no, it doesn’t. It could simply be artistic or symbolic just like wide, flat steps are used now.
@@zackeryhoven1361Nice cover story. Also, should the royalty also be bowing as they are climbing up the stairs? No.
But yeah, those who are of higher level (think about what higher may really mean}, would probably be comfortably going up these steps as they are much larger creatures.
The artistically designed steps that we have in our "modern" time never make it extremely difficult to walk up the steps. In fact, artistic steps you reference always continue to make it comfortable and convenient for one to walk across as you're lifting your legs up across them. Such steps as these of this video are clearly made for a larger creature. A larger human or other. Whatever it was designed for to be climbing these steps at a convenient pace and comfort height is clearly a larger creature than what we have in our time.
My Mayan ancestors and Mexican heritage
Excellent video, thanks. I have to say it feels wrong & disrespectful to dig up graves, though. Just saying…
Pakal came from another world,
35:52 "In Maya society competition and power struggles were widespeead. War was really important for the Maya". And so too for the Americans in the USA. The Maya civilization is gone and civilization (if you can call it that) in the USA will also disappear.
I'se gon' say, leavin' us hangin' on a cliff about th' royal dynasties & the muon survey, yeah? Glad there's a "next time".
See hand holding blade of sword?
Square glif.
Now look where finger goes
Round with 3 dots
Now do you all see anything different?
Yo I came from them My families from El Salvador
0:44 who's that?
Hahaha just some random guys opinion.
350 square km is not fast. It is just a city state, like the Greek polis.
Mayan did human sacrifice right? I haven't heard anything about that.
Yes and why should they. This is about archeology not sociology
Modern historians like to brush-out unpleasant facts from our history.
@lemming9984 yea I don't mind they did it, just teach us about it, was a different world then maybe they was on to something.
lol you didn’t see the top on the pyramid of course they did. Hundreds of thousands of sacrifices.
Hell yeah they kept over population on point lol. The good ol times
What happens to the kings and queen and their jade