I always try to imagine what the photographers have to go through to get these shots. They went up the pyramid first, carrying a camera, to get the shots of the others climbing up. They get out of the 4X4 and stand off to one side to show the vehicles driving through the mud. And, mixed in with all the action are some lovely shots of the flora and fauna of the jungle around them. And they remain anonymous, never seen on screen. Only their spectacular work speaking for their skill.
Ah but seeing all their work is great. I watch stuff like this for the main story but also enjoy seeing the country, people and animals. Hopefully they get some recognition from their peers.
Stannous Flouride I have some answers if you don't mind I am from Central America and it's very difficult and dangerous to get to some of the Mayan ruins snakes Jaguar and Miskito and u can get killed by the rebel
@@anthonywhite1978 still rebel groups in the jungles? I guess our media hasn't been keeping us informed as usual. They are too busy shoving their Trump hate rhetoric down the throats of the dumbed down, easily misled and controlled average American.
So you will make the trek all the way there to see the place that whatever was found is not there anymore either destroyed or looted for some private collection?
@@juan-ksporty7348 Nope, mayans themselves were killing, sacrificing galore their captured enemies and utterly destroying the cities of their enemies when victorious. When Spaniards get there the Mayan civilization was gone already for about 2 centuries. You are mixing them with the Incas and Azteca.
I'm not surprised. I often wondered, as I flew from Mexico City to Tegucigalpa Honduras, why they weren't searching among all the different colored greenery growing in the forests, affected by the limestone buildings. It was obvious to me they were buildings beneath the trees and woods. When they developed that foto machine to detect it, I figured it was about time. Finally they can concentrate on more archeological finds. On one of my excursion in Copan, I met an elder gentleman who was so happy to share his knowledge on the mayan priests. Seeing that I was an eager student, he stayed with me for hours explaining the metaphysics and theory of the Mayan priests. Unfortunately, the museum was later burned down. I've never read any of those theories in any research papers on Mayan priests. Sad.
They've been finding so many buildings one lidar now it's a new technology and they're finding all kinds of stuff in my Amazon so cool my sister's and Brother's
The problem is... most indigenous Mexicans like to brag about their "magical, mystical" knowledge. They like to catch the attention of any tourist by inventing stories. I know them because I am Mexican.
@@AlejandroRamos-im4to Yes, mythology is strange in that sense. But lest you forget, most myths are expansions of the truth. Even it it's fantasy or wishful thinking, there is a semblance of truth or fact. Every faery tale has a seed of truth. What that old man told me was something he truly believed. Magnets are very powerful. But how would a mayan explain that?... By myth.
@@sabinadonofrio8863 It seems that you didn't quite read my comment or you didn't understand it. I know those people, I have lived with them. Nothing to do with "mythology, fantasy or wishful thinking", they are just a bunch of LIARS. STOP IDEALIZING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
I'm so glad they found it. So many documentaries take you through the journey process, only to end with leads that go no where, but having eliminated or ruled out what is not. Discovery doesn't happen within the time it takes to film a documentary. So for those who will pursue careers in archaeology or even geology, it's a good experience to see that the outcome isn't normally like this.
@QProfesor Giorgio A. Tsoukalos that's great, but 10,000 that is a stretch. Besides, if the mexican government knew about it, they would already have begun excavations to bring in more tourism dollars. I know there is still a lot of ancient Mayan cities all over the lands of what was or is still Mesoamérica.
@@asianthor ..."but 10,000 that is a stretch. Besides, if the Mexican government knew about it, they would already have begun excavations to bring in more tourism dollars "... Well, that number comes from the Mexican government, the INAH, the Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico... and you can rest asure, they know about it, but the issue is the budget, there's never enough money to fulfill research, preservation, protection and promotion of more than 10 000 archeological sites, and that's just in Chiapas State, and unlike other countries, thankfully, Mexico is very jealous when it comes to authorizing foreign institutions to explore and study the Mexican heritage.
I've been following you for feeeew days @PraveenMohan. Good contents! Great to see your comment here. My second thought was similar, LA CORONA- as if it's like what started might be the ending? loool
Last time I was in Tikal, they hadn't even explored or recorded all of that site yet. You could stand on the top of one of the temples and see other temples in the jungle that had no name. Oh and there are others in Belize and Honduras too, all across Central America, and there are stalls along the sides of the road that sell miniatures of glyphs like the ones these fellers are getting so excited about. Not quite as unexplored as it seems to be, but leave it for a couple of years and the jungle reclaims it again.
They're out there studying ruins and trying to impose laws and sanctions to "protect" monuments in other countries... all the while, things that have been found in the United States have been destroyed or "disappeared" into the pockets of private collectors never to be seen again.
thats because united states wants to wipe out the history of the land and start new ones. If the government was proud of their own land then they would impose such laws.
Looting of archaeological artifacts have taken place for centuries. The Elgin Marbles in the British Museum are a prime example. Many of the sites are poorly monitored by the countries and the criminal networks are well-financed and likely with connections with the local authorities.
Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of people are saddened by this destruction, just because a collector wanted to keep a carved rock in a display cabinet. Not to mention the valuable information we could have learned if everything was left where it was found. Why do we value "I want this" higher than "I want to learn about this"?
I just went to Ekbalahm in Mexico which is the city of the Jaguar. Apparently there are more than one city where the king considered himself a Jaguar. This particular king used his fathers sculpted femur bone as his scepter. We also went to Chichean Itza and the ball court there was massive compared to the other sites.
Mayans are small people - 5'4" or smaller, and the rings in the ball court are WAY up there. It must've been really something to see these guys flying around, probably getting air from jumping against a wall, to get their ball through these rings so far above their heads.
One must wonder how many and what sort of antiquities are in private hands unseen from the rest of the world. There are some people out there with priceless artifacts
These looted pieces should be Returned to Guatemala, and not sitting in any other museum, especially some little known museum in Maine of all places. As soon as a piece of artifact is known to be looted it should be Returned!!
Return to the hands of the thefts that stole those artifacts in the firts place. Is sad that most of this beautiful places are in a territory full of mostly ignorant people who have no clue about what they are doing, sorry I understand not everyone is the same but in some countries most people are careless about conservative their culture.
Honestly...bless you.These sites are everywhere and they're none of them lost to the locals. They're only 'lost' to westerners. I know people with pieces of mayan stela as door stops.
whitenieves7 all america( the continent) is in the same western spot whatever you are comparing it to. Mayans are as westerners as people living in the states. Actually mayans are more in the west than europeans. Wast to what? Europe? So Europe is the center of the world for you??
ReadySet Go That’s them using the artifacts of their culture. There is no disrespect in that. It’s like buying something at the antique shop. Those traditions are not lost to them they are repurposing their ancestors items it’s a hand-me-down just like a mothers wedding ring or if you didn’t know, culture.
I really despise looters and private collectors. We should require that private collections catalog their holdings online. They should also be compelled to provide the samples photo and dimensions, where they got it, and how long they have owned it. These pieces of cultural heritage are priceless and we need to know what happened to the Maya, I feel it holds the key to what we all feel is coming but dont know what.
I can't help but wonder about the recently discovered MEGA CITY they've discovered that makes La Corona seem so miniscule. Hopefully it's not vandalized seeing its so far into trackless jungle
I have been to Tikal. amazing place. and I will never forget the sweet, pleasant smell of the trees that surround the site. never felt that anywhere else. suspect it's the chikle tree, but I'm not sure about that.
One of the greatest archaeological riddles of our time is the quite unknown story of the parallel ruins left by two seemingly unrelated ancient civilizations: the ancient MAYA INDIANS on one side of the Pacific Ocean and the ancient BALINESE on the other. The mysterious and unexplained similarities in their architecture, iconography, and religion are so striking and profound that the Mayans and Balinese seem to have been twin civilizations-as if children of the same parent. Yet, incredibly, this mystery is not only being ignored by American scholars, it’s being suppressed.
The narrator said, hundreds of miles of jungle. I was under the impression that most of the jungle had been decimated. If anything, the jungle their is new growth, since if it was filled with cities, chunks of it had to be chopped down by various Mayan tribes themselves. Apparently, for thousands of years, we have engaged in degrees of deforestation. We need satellite maps to show "new growth" forests (under 200 years) to get an historical sense of the extent of deforestation in ancient times. Then we can compare it to what has been happening since modern times.
GaslitWorld... Michael Crichton (the author of Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain..) actually viewed such satellite maps, of the African continent, in 1978-79, while writing his novel "Congo" ... the variance of surface reflectivity of sunlight between different types of jungle - old growth, secondary, late secondary, tertiary.. was available by Landsat THEN... the reason nobody has found the cities is due to the fact that nobody has LOOKED.... also see the part that if you look at maps showing the locations of Maya Cities, you will find another theme... a high point, from which beacon fires can be seen from the next city... you think JRR Tolkien used that method for communication between cities in Lord of the Rings, by chance?!?!
There is no commerce in guetamala but give it 50yrs the forest will be gone. A new campaign to bring Guetamala into international markets should have the forests stripped in no time!
You know it's going to be a pleasant journey when the guide tells you to keep your eyes on the ground. And also there are poisonous snakes that are aggressive, and they look exactly like the ground.
Had mixed feelings watching a man who neither seems to be even slightly into the Maya nor have field archaeology experience at all, leading an expedition into Peten jungle. Serious explorers had dedicated years and years on Site Q enigma and these jolly travellers do not even seem to have had a compass. Davis Stuart's and Richard Hansen's professionalism stands out.
I thought the same. The liverpudlian uni professor was out of his depth. It wasn't his specific field of expertise. He did not speak Spanish and to me seemed more at home behind a desk. He should leave the fieldwork to other's who don't mind getting their hands dirty.
If you guy's drink White vinegar a little in a glass of water every other day nothing will bite you thayyy smell the vinegar coming out of your skin and fly away or crawl away from you immediately. It's all so good for you to it lowers blood pressure as well it is a very old but effective technique
Looters? LOOTERS?? Are you speaking of the US Government. Cause thats the only Looters I see in this country. Everything else is a 'Reaction' to an Action ,
@Modox Problem is the original looters are usually not the owners. You can't blame someone for owning a piece of history that was looted 200 years ago. But the stuff being looted today is just sad though.....
my Indiana Banana moment. I was climbing down a pyramid during rainy season which was a big pile of fallen blocks when i found a scary bunch of mosquitoes at the bottom. I ran back up the pile with such force that a big block started moving sending an avalanche down the side. A shameful moment realizing even massive ruins can be fragile.
Nice vid.... where I've had the absolute please to venture up the Usumacinta River to visit a number of Maya sites and jungled ruins over the years. If you're not familiar with (young) Dr. David Stewart, then google around for his truly remarkable and achievement-ridden Bio. While currently at UT Austin, he definitely "Be Da Man", and may even be THE God of Maya hieroglyphic deciphering!!! He alone largely changed the archaeological understanding of Mayan history…...
I've always been fascinated with the Navajo peoples. This would actually be very cool and interesting. We need more Navajo documentaries and projects about life as a Navajo today. I'd watch them.
iam not dine', Billy gona,lol but was raised on the rez,from TV uba,crown point,k town to shiprock,was always fascinated by the different clans ,my kids are ushe,noabani,Billy gona....I don't know how to spell it properly
I wish I was allowed to go into the jungle with the archaeologists and help with the groundwork, finding and documenting new sites and discoveries but bureaucracy and academia stand in my way. It seems like I’m not free to go to where my ancestors are from to investigate my past and further understand myself. That sort of control feels unnatural and makes me think I’m not supposed to know about my ancestors, these sites, or my heritage. I’m supposed to take what I’m told from academia, white people who have their own heritage and ancient sites that actually dominate ideas and the history in books around the world. It seems convenient not to uncover more about the Yucatán peninsula and the human activity that occurred there because it allows for European and other cultures to pervade people and cultures that had developed their own way, told their own story, and left their own monuments.
These people just make stuff up as they go and because they run around digging up things that they have no right digging up so they can dictate what all these civilizations reality was therefore everything they say is must be recorded as history and anything else is wrong, anyone that cannot tell the difference between what they are making up and what is questionable might want to find something else and I agree we white people want to control everything and make ourselves suppirior to every other civilization and it's down right shameful. your comment is not far from the truth and because they never will I will apologize for all of us . To the archaeologist just because you dig up artifacts and gather up the pieces of ruins and put them wherever they fit or think they fit or how they should go don't mean that you know what every building was for and what they did in these buildings if you expect me to believe that and you're not even from that part of the world I think that you should get archaeologists that actually know the heritage and that are from this area instead of piecing together what you think . Joseph you have more rights to walk through these amazing places than these people and the authorities need to change who they give access and who they don't and you should have say what happens in these places and all others tied to this civilization and teach all who search to know their culture, I hope some day you will be able to walk through and become one with your past , your ancestors and the lands they loved so much take care
I would say that this is as raw as it gets for a TV production. From very early on they admit no one is an expert - and they do bring experts later on. Then we see what could possibly be outtakes in major productions: from the difficulties loading the mules to mundane comments to the footage of one of them getting hit on the face by a branch in a scene that could have been taken from a comedy video. They actually included footage of monkey balls 29:31 lol I've done some trekking in South American jungles and apart from the bad weather it was pretty much the same as I saw here. Loved it! :D
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Wait wait wait! So I'm sitting here at my kitchen table, with my headphones in and this documentary playing, redoing my chem I /chem II book from cover to cover, because I'm nervous about organic chemistry this fall, and I hear my school's name pop up! #UniveristyofMaine I have to go to campus either tomorrow or next week for signatures to officially change my major to molecular and cellular biology, so I'm going to pop in and see if I can get in to see this bad boy! Fingers crossed! It would be really cool if I could and I will see if they will let me film something for my TH-cam channel too!
I still remember running through this wilderness with a bag full of frag grenades,smoke grenades,energy drinks and an M416 on my hand and an M762 on my back.. They called it Jungle Adventure.. I evoked those ancient gods and they gifted me SKS and AKM...
What is sacred to the Maya remains sacred and remains with honor to the people. Archeaologist and anyone else should respect this above all as they are learning and researching.
corona is a taboo word now, i named my cat corona in 2018 and it's quite odd time at the veterinarian. but it's such a great spanish word. i love the scientific and poetic nature of the word
Hey Ed...know why the civilisation disappeared? or where they never there in the first place I wonder. So many temples and Pyramids and Megaliths have the truth written within their design. I decoded the pyramid and know its one true purpose. ... our other star/sun left us to take up a cycle around Jupiter. Ever since the planets cycles around the single Sun have been managed by "others" They have to as the horizontal band of one star drives global Tsunamis..thus we have Atlantis installed. The cycles make certain areas unlivable during certain times of the year and for a 1000 years or so. sus my channel. Atlantis the final straw. Plenty of other vids.
It's apparently expensive, but I think Las Corona should be surveyed by Lidar ASAP, if it hasn't been done already. So much of the Mayan jungle has yet to be surveyed.
yeah , when ufo's weren't ''history'' ... we had some good docs and shows back then how long has it been ? a couple decades now ... really miss those well thought out documentaries ... can't turn on the channel or they're talking about bigfoot or ufo's , ghosts
When they were going down the river I saw a set of steps going into the river from the riverbank when they panned the camera along the riverbank.. unbelievable!!
Love the fact that some pop country singer with a gratuitous bent cowboy hat does a commercial for retirement planning during the middle of this exploration of ancient humanity's rise to greatness.
Was in Honduras in the jungle were two rivers meet one river was warm water the other was cold. Cold water came from under ground, the Mayan would have cities near places like this.
We need a well funded worldwide organization of some kind complete with Tradesmen & Scientists from all Fields, With the sole purpose of exploration study and conclusion with hands-on open to us the public undaunting pursuit of solving the prehistory achievements of our species, I see that there is a rapidly growing number of curious and interested people that want to know these unsolved mystories, It's just a matter of time till a people like Billionaire Elon Musk get involved and get the ball rolling .. Better hurry up I'm 65 and not getting any younger,,,
It’s kind of crazy you can still buy and sell the ancient panels that were obviously taken from the area in the 1970’s lol. The provenance obviously definitely doesn’t date back even a century and at some point they became smuggled out. It’s understandable this happened in the past, but the fact these artifacts are still being sold with all we know about where they came from is weird to me. Looted art should be able to be reclaimed even if it’s been resold, because buyers should have done their due diligence and realized it’s stolen and one day could be returned.
They keep referring to 'looters' i.e in their terms criminals. But it is archaeology and the museums who created the market for artefacts from ancient sites. The' looters' were and probably still are local poor people for whom such sites had no meaning and could have no relevance to their daily need to survive. I used to have quite an interest in archaeology but no longer. You can get quite sick of listening to people who are only concerned with their own particular passion in life, and who refer to anyone they perceive to spoil their narrow little interests as criminals.
tish Willarde I've seen quite a difference between people who will destroy a site for pieces they take only for money, and ones who try to preserve, protect, study, and display for everyone's knowledge and enjoyment. And you must not pay attention, either here or elsewhere, as they made a distinction between the "petty pilfering" of the kind locals might do, and organized operations, usually of outsiders. I've seen in SE Asia as well, the looters are armed, and unafraid to even kill anyone, including locals, who happen to intrude when they are looting, and often are same groups that smuggle drugs, etc.
A British researcher from Cambridge is an expert on looting in the art world? Well, I can't tell if that's fitting or serendipitous. He certainly has enough sampling to research, doesn't he?
Toyotas 4X4 vehicles, only these can get thru this type of terrain, forget US made 4X4s. Wearing long sleeves would prevent mosquitoes from stinging so much lady.
"One of the first cities of the Sumerians was Eridug/Eridu. It was first settled around 5400 B.C. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t other people around, like the Aboriginal Australians or the Ancient Egyptians near the Nile River. It just means that this is where “a relatively high level of cultural and technological development specifically: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained.” These were the first people to keep records of the Anunnaki. rebirthoftheword.com/sumerians/ facebook.com/groups/853331861951805/
I’ve been to several ruin sites along the Usumicinta including Yaxchilàn. The river is the only access to many of them. It’s deep jungle, but there are stairs leading up the banks.
Love what ya'll have done here. How many archaeological sites can be imagined hidden in the jungles? I agree partially, with the idea expressed by "Moorish..". Was everything shown Mayan, or can some of it fall into the context of the Olmec? No questions raised. Got to be open for re-interpretation. That is the nature of science.
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"MAY HAVE" reached a definitive conclusion.
Ha!
They still don't know.
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I always try to imagine what the photographers have to go through to get these shots. They went up the pyramid first, carrying a camera, to get the shots of the others climbing up. They get out of the 4X4 and stand off to one side to show the vehicles driving through the mud. And, mixed in with all the action are some lovely shots of the flora and fauna of the jungle around them.
And they remain anonymous, never seen on screen. Only their spectacular work speaking for their skill.
Ah but seeing all their work is great. I watch stuff like this for the main story but also enjoy seeing the country, people and animals. Hopefully they get some recognition from their peers.
@@generalcomments1239 And the videographers then?
Stannous Flouride I have some answers if you don't mind I am from Central America and it's very difficult and dangerous to get to some of the Mayan ruins snakes Jaguar and Miskito and u can get killed by the rebel
The NIFB Jesus why so offensive?
@@anthonywhite1978 still rebel groups in the jungles? I guess our media hasn't been keeping us informed as usual. They are too busy shoving their Trump hate rhetoric down the throats of the dumbed down, easily misled and controlled average American.
Whatever y'all found there, PUT IT BACK.
Sincerely, 2020.
Forreal😭
"Put that thing back where it came from or so help me"
So you will make the trek all the way there to see the place that whatever was found is not there anymore either destroyed or looted for some private collection?
@@HgHg-yp6ft the Spaniards the first looters!!
@@juan-ksporty7348 Nope, mayans themselves were killing, sacrificing galore their captured enemies and utterly destroying the cities of their enemies when victorious. When Spaniards get there the Mayan civilization was gone already for about 2 centuries. You are mixing them with the Incas and Azteca.
I'm not surprised. I often wondered, as I flew from Mexico City to Tegucigalpa Honduras, why they weren't searching among all the different colored greenery growing in the forests, affected by the limestone buildings. It was obvious to me they were buildings beneath the trees and woods. When they developed that foto machine to detect it, I figured it was about time. Finally they can concentrate on more archeological finds.
On one of my excursion in Copan, I met an elder gentleman who was so happy to share his knowledge on the mayan priests. Seeing that I was an eager student, he stayed with me for hours explaining the metaphysics and theory of the Mayan priests.
Unfortunately, the museum was later burned down. I've never read any of those theories in any research papers on Mayan priests. Sad.
They've been finding so many buildings one lidar now it's a new technology and they're finding all kinds of stuff in my Amazon so cool my sister's and Brother's
The problem is... most indigenous Mexicans like to brag about their "magical, mystical" knowledge. They like to catch the attention of any tourist by inventing stories. I know them because I am Mexican.
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Yes, mythology is strange in that sense. But lest you forget, most myths are expansions of the truth. Even it it's fantasy or wishful thinking, there is a semblance of truth or fact. Every faery tale has a seed of truth. What that old man told me was something he truly believed. Magnets are very powerful. But how would a mayan explain that?... By myth.
@@sabinadonofrio8863 It seems that you didn't quite read my comment or you didn't understand it. I know those people, I have lived with them. Nothing to do with "mythology, fantasy or wishful thinking", they are just a bunch of LIARS. STOP IDEALIZING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
@@AlejandroRamos-im4to idealizing???? Having a respect for various cultures is NOT idolizing.
I'm so glad they found it. So many documentaries take you through the journey process, only to end with leads that go no where, but having eliminated or ruled out what is not.
Discovery doesn't happen within the time it takes to film a documentary.
So for those who will pursue careers in archaeology or even geology, it's a good experience to see that the outcome isn't normally like this.
Probably the best lockdown documentary ever lol ... thoroughly engrossing, loved every minute of it !
Why not best doc ever🤣 surely the best documentarie off all time would be better than the best lock down documentary don't ya think🤣🤣
Yup got nothing to do quarantined and watching documentaries to pass time😂👍
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Seriously?? This was boring af.
Where was the city? I saw some rocks and jungle.
It's amazing that there are literally 100's or 1,000's of lost hidden Mayan cities still under the Guatemalan jungle.
it is hey
@QProfesor Giorgio A. Tsoukalos 😅Maya is a Aliens.. According to History Acient Aliens ....
cant wait till they make new discoveries in them
@QProfesor Giorgio A. Tsoukalos that's great, but 10,000 that is a stretch. Besides, if the mexican government knew about it, they would already have begun excavations to bring in more tourism dollars. I know there is still a lot of ancient Mayan cities all over the lands of what was or is still Mesoamérica.
@@asianthor ..."but 10,000 that is a stretch. Besides, if the Mexican government knew about it, they would already have begun excavations to bring in more tourism dollars "... Well, that number comes from the Mexican government, the INAH, the Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico... and you can rest asure, they know about it, but the issue is the budget, there's never enough money to fulfill research, preservation, protection and promotion of more than 10 000 archeological sites, and that's just in Chiapas State, and unlike other countries, thankfully, Mexico is very jealous when it comes to authorizing foreign institutions to explore and study the Mexican heritage.
This city's name is LA CORONA. Well played Guatemala, well played! 😂😂
I've been following you for feeeew days @PraveenMohan. Good contents!
Great to see your comment here.
My second thought was similar, LA CORONA- as if it's like what started might be the ending?
loool
And what it's the right name for the city ?? According to you.
Hey Praveen 👋
You were thinking of the virus I instantly thought of the beer lol
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Anyone watching it during lockdown must have noticed the "la corona" city .... COOL !
“Oh that’s cool, because of corona.”
~my first thought upon seeing this documentary title, lol
Thats where they found out how to make it. Lol
I saw the title and clicked, just to see the comments. Wasn't disappointed xD
I was thinking the beer...
Yes very weird.is there an answer there.....
30 years message coming from
Saturn rings....
So much weirdness coincidances....
Back when history channel actually was History and their documentaries mattered.
when was this?
This isn't the History Channel tho
It's still his story
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Last time I was in Tikal, they hadn't even explored or recorded all of that site yet. You could stand on the top of one of the temples and see other temples in the jungle that had no name. Oh and there are others in Belize and Honduras too, all across Central America, and there are stalls along the sides of the road that sell miniatures of glyphs like the ones these fellers are getting so excited about. Not quite as unexplored as it seems to be, but leave it for a couple of years and the jungle reclaims it again.
They're out there studying ruins and trying to impose laws and sanctions to "protect" monuments in other countries... all the while, things that have been found in the United States have been destroyed or "disappeared" into the pockets of private collectors never to be seen again.
thats because united states wants to wipe out the history of the land and start new ones. If the government was proud of their own land then they would impose such laws.
Looting of archaeological artifacts have taken place for centuries. The Elgin Marbles in the British Museum are a prime example. Many of the sites are poorly monitored by the countries and the criminal networks are well-financed and likely with connections with the local authorities.
So? Looting is a problem everywhere. Should we let it occur in one place just because it's happening in another?
zarasbazaar yes.. free market
the infinity stones were looted too
Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of people are saddened by this destruction, just because a collector wanted to keep a carved rock in a display cabinet. Not to mention the valuable information we could have learned if everything was left where it was found. Why do we value "I want this" higher than "I want to learn about this"?
Que bella es mi Guatemala 🇬🇹
When you see movies of Egypt and the opulance...pre Colombian cities were like that as well...beautiful
Arnold Polin the truth is this is where all that history took place
I just went to Ekbalahm in Mexico which is the city of the Jaguar. Apparently there are more than one city where the king considered himself a Jaguar. This particular king used his fathers sculpted femur bone as his scepter. We also went to Chichean Itza and the ball court there was massive compared to the other sites.
Mayans are small people - 5'4" or smaller, and the rings in the ball court are WAY up there. It must've been really something to see these guys flying around, probably getting air from jumping against a wall, to get their ball through these rings so far above their heads.
@@SweetUniverse to be fair everyone in the world was 5’4 at the time e
8:25 I like it how they're all too busy cackling to each other that they sail right past the Temple steps at the side of the river to notice !
One must wonder how many and what sort of antiquities are in private hands unseen from the rest of the world. There are some people out there with priceless artifacts
These looted pieces should be Returned to Guatemala, and not sitting in any other museum, especially some little known museum in Maine of all places. As soon as a piece of artifact is known to be looted it should be Returned!!
Return to the hands of the thefts that stole those artifacts in the firts place. Is sad that most of this beautiful places are in a territory full of mostly ignorant people who have no clue about what they are doing, sorry I understand not everyone is the same but in some countries most people are careless about conservative their culture.
Guatemala as a whole did not loot and sell. There are people who exploit and people who preserve in every nation.
TheOerdin - um Guatemalans are Mayan descendants is it really stolen if they’re ours in the first place? But I also don’t agree with the selling.
Yeah agree there's no reason why another country should have it.
@TheOerdin Because there was a rich white man who wanted to buy it from a poor Guatemalan man for nothing more than 100USD a piece.
Honestly...bless you.These sites are everywhere and they're none of them lost to the locals. They're only 'lost' to westerners. I know people with pieces of mayan stela as door stops.
whitenieves7 all america( the continent) is in the same western spot whatever you are comparing it to. Mayans are as westerners as people living in the states. Actually mayans are more in the west than europeans. Wast to what? Europe? So Europe is the center of the world for you??
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That’s them using the artifacts of their culture. There is no disrespect in that. It’s like buying something at the antique shop. Those traditions are not lost to them they are repurposing their ancestors items it’s a hand-me-down just like a mothers wedding ring or if you didn’t know, culture.
Lol..bless the westerners
I really despise looters and private collectors. We should require that private collections catalog their holdings online. They should also be compelled to provide the samples photo and dimensions, where they got it, and how long they have owned it.
These pieces of cultural heritage are priceless and we need to know what happened to the Maya, I feel it holds the key to what we all feel is coming but dont know what.
I can't help but wonder about the recently discovered MEGA CITY they've discovered that makes La Corona seem so miniscule. Hopefully it's not vandalized seeing its so far into trackless jungle
2024 and still watching. I ❤ History
"An expert on looting in the art world"
One wonders how you earn such a title 🤔
To qualify one must have Klept the Mona Lisa at least once
I have been to Tikal. amazing place. and I will never forget the sweet, pleasant smell of the trees that surround the site. never felt that anywhere else. suspect it's the chikle tree, but I'm not sure about that.
One of the greatest archaeological riddles of our time is the quite unknown story of the parallel ruins left by two seemingly unrelated ancient civilizations: the ancient MAYA INDIANS on one side of the Pacific Ocean and the ancient BALINESE on the other. The mysterious and unexplained similarities in their architecture, iconography, and religion are so striking and profound that the Mayans and Balinese seem to have been twin civilizations-as if children of the same parent. Yet, incredibly, this mystery is not only being ignored by American scholars, it’s being suppressed.
We’re not Indians you bozo. we are indigenous people.
We still need to find Paititi, or more commonly known as “El Dorado”
since this was put out, lidar imaging has found lots.
The narrator said, hundreds of miles of jungle. I was under the impression that most of the jungle had been decimated. If anything, the jungle their is new growth, since if it was filled with cities, chunks of it had to be chopped down by various Mayan tribes themselves.
Apparently, for thousands of years, we have engaged in degrees of deforestation. We need satellite maps to show "new growth" forests (under 200 years) to get an historical sense of the extent of deforestation in ancient times. Then we can compare it to what has been happening since modern times.
GaslitWorld... Michael Crichton (the author of Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain..) actually viewed such satellite maps, of the African continent, in 1978-79, while writing his novel "Congo" ... the variance of surface reflectivity of sunlight between different types of jungle - old growth, secondary, late secondary, tertiary.. was available by Landsat THEN... the reason nobody has found the cities is due to the fact that nobody has LOOKED.... also see the part that if you look at maps showing the locations of Maya Cities, you will find another theme... a high point, from which beacon fires can be seen from the next city... you think JRR Tolkien used that method for communication between cities in Lord of the Rings, by chance?!?!
There is no commerce in guetamala but give it 50yrs the forest will be gone. A new campaign to bring Guetamala into international markets should have the forests stripped in no time!
@@themittonmethod1243 dude the beacon system is well known in medieval europe too, Tolkien didnt use it by chance no but neither from the mayans
The classical Mayan civilzation probably collpased due to draught and famines caused by their extensive deforestation
You know it's going to be a pleasant journey when the guide tells you to keep your eyes on the ground. And also there are poisonous snakes that are aggressive, and they look exactly like the ground.
Had mixed feelings watching a man who neither seems to be even slightly into the Maya nor have field archaeology experience at all, leading an expedition into Peten jungle. Serious explorers had dedicated years and years on Site Q enigma and these jolly travellers do not even seem to have had a compass. Davis Stuart's and Richard Hansen's professionalism stands out.
the guy is clueless and the look on his face at certain points... in it for the fame in 'archaelogy circles'
I thought the same. The liverpudlian uni professor was out of his depth. It wasn't his specific field of expertise. He did not speak Spanish and to me seemed more at home behind a desk. He should leave the fieldwork to other's who don't mind getting their hands dirty.
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I guess not everything in life can be as You wish it be.
If you guy's drink White vinegar a little in a glass of water every other day nothing will bite you thayyy smell the vinegar coming out of your skin and fly away or crawl away from you immediately. It's all so good for you to it lowers blood pressure as well it is a very old but effective technique
Use the raw vinegar with the mother, it is even better!
Really sad what happens with looters. Destroying their own history....
When your children are hungry what would you do?
Looters? LOOTERS?? Are you speaking of the US Government. Cause thats the only Looters I see in this country. Everything else is a 'Reaction' to an Action ,
@@wills6651 Stealing from dead people would not even make my list....
@Modox Problem is the original looters are usually not the owners. You can't blame someone for owning a piece of history that was looted 200 years ago. But the stuff being looted today is just sad though.....
Worse is; if they dont they starve....
my Indiana Banana moment. I was climbing down a pyramid during rainy season which was a big pile of fallen blocks when i found a scary bunch of mosquitoes at the bottom. I ran back up the pile with such force that a big block started moving sending an avalanche down the side. A shameful moment realizing even massive ruins can be fragile.
Nice vid.... where I've had the absolute please to venture up the Usumacinta River to visit a number of Maya sites and jungled ruins over the years. If you're not familiar with (young) Dr. David Stewart, then google around for his truly remarkable and achievement-ridden Bio. While currently at UT Austin, he definitely "Be Da Man", and may even be THE God of Maya hieroglyphic deciphering!!! He alone largely changed the archaeological understanding of Mayan history…...
Mayan civilization is astonishing anciently advance ...🤔🤔..a True wonderland..👍
For a second i thought this was an old 80s documentary. That Chevy Caprice Wagon taxi is immaculate.
La Corona (1996) is site Q.
Their expedition looks so similar to day to day life getting home on my reservation, Navajo Nation. I should become an explorer.
I hope you do! We could use an explorers perspective from someone of first people decent.
Record it and work on editing. I’m sure your reservation has a lot of beautiful history to tell.
I've always been fascinated with the Navajo peoples. This would actually be very cool and interesting. We need more Navajo documentaries and projects about life as a Navajo today. I'd watch them.
iam not dine', Billy gona,lol but was raised on the rez,from TV uba,crown point,k town to shiprock,was always fascinated by the different clans ,my kids are ushe,noabani,Billy gona....I don't know how to spell it properly
People around the world need to tell their own stories ..not through others lens
They took tons of our gold and try to erase our history but were still here and proud and our riches are beyond materialistic things.
Native Americans have the most interesting history and it’s not even close! I’m glad to be descendant of Mayans and toltecs
The wildlife alone would make it well worth the adventure. 👍
Amazing
I wish I was allowed to go into the jungle with the archaeologists and help with the groundwork, finding and documenting new sites and discoveries but bureaucracy and academia stand in my way. It seems like I’m not free to go to where my ancestors are from to investigate my past and further understand myself. That sort of control feels unnatural and makes me think I’m not supposed to know about my ancestors, these sites, or my heritage. I’m supposed to take what I’m told from academia, white people who have their own heritage and ancient sites that actually dominate ideas and the history in books around the world. It seems convenient not to uncover more about the Yucatán peninsula and the human activity that occurred there because it allows for European and other cultures to pervade people and cultures that had developed their own way, told their own story, and left their own monuments.
naslong as you don't go with this guy. He has been wrong 4 times in less than 10minutes
These people just make stuff up as they go and because they run around digging up things that they have no right digging up so they can dictate what all these civilizations reality was therefore everything they say is must be recorded as history and anything else is wrong, anyone that cannot tell the difference between what they are making up and what is questionable might want to find something else and I agree we white people want to control everything and make ourselves suppirior to every other civilization and it's down right shameful. your comment is not far from the truth and because they never will I will apologize for all of us . To the archaeologist just because you dig up artifacts and gather up the pieces of ruins and put them wherever they fit or think they fit or how they should go don't mean that you know what every building was for and what they did in these buildings if you expect me to believe that and you're not even from that part of the world I think that you should get archaeologists that actually know the heritage and that are from this area instead of piecing together what you think . Joseph you have more rights to walk through these amazing places than these people and the authorities need to change who they give access and who they don't and you should have say what happens in these places and all others tied to this civilization and teach all who search to know their culture, I hope some day you will be able to walk through and become one with your past , your ancestors and the lands they loved so much take care
I would say that this is as raw as it gets for a TV production.
From very early on they admit no one is an expert - and they do bring experts later on.
Then we see what could possibly be outtakes in major productions: from the difficulties loading the mules to mundane comments to the footage of one of them getting hit on the face by a branch in a scene that could have been taken from a comedy video. They actually included footage of monkey balls 29:31 lol
I've done some trekking in South American jungles and apart from the bad weather it was pretty much the same as I saw here. Loved it! :D
This feels like a rough cut of a homemade documentary episode and I loved every second it
is the original documentary longer?
The image on the thumbnail is that of "Xunantunich" or "stone Lady" which is in Belize. not Guatemala and its not site Q.
well technically it is Guatemalan property
I am sure a thousand years ago boundaries did not exist..
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Lmao 😆 NO , it’s BELIZE 🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿
@@raggazo23 ah! yes! 😉
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
A retired looter would help them in such excavations in a big way😅
These videos are so interesting and so well done thank you so much timeline
Wait wait wait! So I'm sitting here at my kitchen table, with my headphones in and this documentary playing, redoing my chem I /chem II book from cover to cover, because I'm nervous about organic chemistry this fall, and I hear my school's name pop up! #UniveristyofMaine I have to go to campus either tomorrow or next week for signatures to officially change my major to molecular and cellular biology, so I'm going to pop in and see if I can get in to see this bad boy! Fingers crossed! It would be really cool if I could and I will see if they will let me film something for my TH-cam channel too!
I still remember running through this wilderness with a bag full of frag grenades,smoke grenades,energy drinks and an M416 on my hand and an M762 on my back..
They called it Jungle Adventure..
I evoked those ancient gods and they gifted me SKS and AKM...
Use Lidar, sees through the trees and Jungle. Great Docu though, more of this please.
Excellent perspectives on another 'great unknown'...we know less than we actually remember...it would seem this way any how...peace...
What is sacred to the Maya remains sacred and remains with honor to the people. Archeaologist and anyone else should respect this above all as they are learning and researching.
maria clark they have come to loot the city yet sound surprised that local looters have gotten there first.
corona is a taboo word now, i named my cat corona in 2018 and it's quite odd time at the veterinarian. but it's such a great spanish word. i love the scientific and poetic nature of the word
Update they found the lost city using laser radar found it last week ! Great history unfolded
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Now it makes sense. Thank you
@@than217 thank you for the update and site.
Hey Ed...know why the civilisation disappeared? or where they never there in the first place I wonder. So many temples and Pyramids and Megaliths have the truth written within their design. I decoded the pyramid and know its one true purpose. ... our other star/sun left us to take up a cycle around Jupiter. Ever since the planets cycles around the single Sun have been managed by "others" They have to as the horizontal band of one star drives global Tsunamis..thus we have Atlantis installed. The cycles make certain areas unlivable during certain times of the year and for a 1000 years or so. sus my channel. Atlantis the final straw. Plenty of other vids.
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Where is Atlantis?
It's apparently expensive, but I think Las Corona should be surveyed by Lidar ASAP, if it hasn't been done already. So much of the Mayan jungle has yet to be surveyed.
"An expert on looting" .. That's funny
My god, can you imagine what lies lost in the amazon.
everything
They’re doing LIDAR scanning now and finding huge abandoned cities
@@omgitsjoetime thats awesone!!
anthony romano look into Graham Hancock
There are many lost Tombs in Egypt still.
I miss the good ole History channel!!!
yeah , when ufo's weren't ''history'' ... we had some good docs and shows back then
how long has it been ? a couple decades now ...
really miss those well thought out documentaries ...
can't turn on the channel or they're talking about bigfoot or ufo's , ghosts
I enjoyed watching it. Great video! 👍💯
Red Turkey might be like the David Beckham of the day and it’s like tracking him from Manchester to Madrid to LA, Milan, Paris, etc.
Ha, I had exactly the same thought
I know, right? he musta been hella good to get on that stone.
This was a painstaking labour thanks a lot 🌹
I swear it a concrete saw cutting away in the background around 11:45. Lol!
When they were going down the river I saw a set of steps going into the river from the riverbank when they panned the camera along the riverbank.. unbelievable!!
The stone sample was clearly a match now that’s Amazing from all the stones in the world site q is found;)
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That drunk Guatemalan man was playin them! Hahahaha I loved it! 😍
Very annoying and ignorant set of people. Moaning instead of gathering the evidence
Awesome! Was the lost city itself ever discovered?
they need to take a paisa to negotiate with the culture they aint gonna open up to some foreigners
Frankie Lopez hahah for real dawg 😂😂
Hahahaha
Well this is a break from tradition. Usually these lost city docs don't find anything
It's a great Documentary to watch even the second time!
“There could thousands of cities in this jungle”....LIDAR..people LIDAR...
didnt exist when this was made..
So interested in this but just couldn’t deal with the failure to keep to the point.....keep the viewer engaged!!!!!
Love the fact that some pop country singer with a gratuitous bent cowboy hat does a commercial for retirement planning during the middle of this exploration of ancient humanity's rise to greatness.
Speaking volumes! Haha
Sooo true! The two subjects have so much in common!
Was in Honduras in the jungle were two rivers meet one river was warm water the other was cold. Cold water came from under ground, the Mayan would have cities near places like this.
So informative yet the archaeologists seemed il-prepared and almost amateurish.
@Doctor Drywell Aren't these people looters as well , disguised as anthropologist's?
@@rayraysedjo2919 As I'm watching this, I feel like the guide in the Camel hat knows a lot more about the looters than he's letting on.
Wonderful discovery. Hope remains
Literally amazing how these and other ancient people left us evidence of their cultures🗿🗿🗿
They should be using Lidar GIS technology to find site Q.
i think this needs more dds. every 5 mins isnt enough. one every min would be much better..
Plz don't give them ideas lmao
Very Good!!!
We need a well funded worldwide organization of some kind complete with Tradesmen & Scientists from all Fields, With the sole purpose of exploration study and conclusion with hands-on open to us the public undaunting pursuit of solving the prehistory achievements of our species,
I see that there is a rapidly growing number of curious and interested people that want to know these unsolved mystories, It's just a matter of time till a people like Billionaire Elon Musk get involved and get the ball rolling ..
Better hurry up I'm 65 and not getting any younger,,,
WHY? It's all been looted...Central America history is gone because the peoples are too ignorant
Good work bro im really impressed and this tutorials you make are very useful to me
"We better set up camp before it starts raining" *looks at parrots and let's everyone else do the work*
White people lol
Are the closed captions broken for anyone else?
Great video. Thank you. 💯
It’s kind of crazy you can still buy and sell the ancient panels that were obviously taken from the area in the 1970’s lol.
The provenance obviously definitely doesn’t date back even a century and at some point they became smuggled out. It’s understandable this happened in the past, but the fact these artifacts are still being sold with all we know about where they came from is weird to me.
Looted art should be able to be reclaimed even if it’s been resold, because buyers should have done their due diligence and realized it’s stolen and one day could be returned.
They keep referring to 'looters' i.e in their terms criminals. But it is archaeology and the museums who created the market for artefacts from ancient sites. The' looters' were and probably still are local poor people for whom such sites had no meaning and could have no relevance to their daily need to survive. I used to have quite an interest in archaeology but no longer. You can get quite sick of listening to people who are only concerned with their own particular passion in life, and who refer to anyone they perceive to spoil their narrow little interests as criminals.
tish Willarde I've seen quite a difference between people who will destroy a site for pieces they take only for money, and ones who try to preserve, protect, study, and display for everyone's knowledge and enjoyment.
And you must not pay attention, either here or elsewhere, as they made a distinction between the "petty pilfering" of the kind locals might do, and organized operations, usually of outsiders.
I've seen in SE Asia as well, the looters are armed, and unafraid to even kill anyone, including locals, who happen to intrude when they are looting, and often are same groups that smuggle drugs, etc.
A British researcher from Cambridge is an expert on looting in the art world? Well, I can't tell if that's fitting or serendipitous. He certainly has enough sampling to research, doesn't he?
Sorry, My fingers were too tired from closing all the ads to like and subscribe to your channel. Better luck next time!
Oh God .namaskar to everyone for challenging documentary.god bless them.
Ah the days before high resolution lidar!
Toyotas 4X4 vehicles, only these can get thru this type of terrain, forget US made 4X4s. Wearing long sleeves would prevent mosquitoes from stinging so much lady.
I love how they make so many assumptions seem factual.
they could make a new bible ...
"One of the first cities of the Sumerians was Eridug/Eridu. It was first settled around 5400 B.C. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t other people around, like the Aboriginal Australians or the Ancient Egyptians near the Nile River. It just means that this is where “a relatively high level of cultural and technological development specifically: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained.”
These were the first people to keep records of the Anunnaki.
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Very interesting !
7:36 in your video, a stairway in the background, that is not nature
Wtf are you on about
he wanted to say 7:26 i guess
By the river? I saw a pretty interesting looking staircase while they were cruising by.
I’ve been to several ruin sites along the Usumicinta including Yaxchilàn. The river is the only access to many of them. It’s deep jungle, but there are stairs leading up the banks.
Did u catch the ruined wall 10 seconds on @ 7:46 ?.. good spot.
Knowingly buying stolen property is a crime!
It's right and proper that They searched for the Lost City and didn't find it.
I would say so.
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Is this pre-LIDAR?
Love what ya'll have done here. How many archaeological sites can be imagined hidden in the jungles? I agree partially, with the idea expressed by "Moorish..". Was everything shown Mayan, or can some of it fall into the context of the Olmec? No questions raised. Got to be open for re-interpretation. That is the nature of science.