i lived in guatemala for 10 years and visited almost all mayan archaeological sites. I still miss piedra negra and el mirador, but next time I visit my friends in guatemala, I will definitely go there! Thanks for your video!
If it is called the entrance, maybe its an entrance. Pardon my big brain idea. I would love to see some LIDAR scans of that area. Fascinating. Love the channel, by far the best out there. Hope everyone is well.
Thanks. If you have National Geographic channel look for their show on this place. They did many today. I recorded a few. They were walking through the jungle with a LIDAR pad in front of their faces...with undergrowth all around them they were looking through it all, checking out the ruins and pyramids through that pad....I was blown away.
@Ian Sayers Cenotes were very important. But seems most were up by the Yuchatan. The Turtle symbolism seems important. It has to do with their creation myth. But their connection with places like Chichen Itza and the turtle symbolism makes me think this was an early important place.
Absolutely fascinating Chuck! This site is quite huge, i'm very impressed by all the carvings and artworks. Those Mayans were pretty damn amazing. I just watched a video on Antonio Zamora's channel, when even Antonio is talking about the pandemic, you know that thing is no joke.😂 pretty interesting video. Thanks Chuck, very cool site, very cool video, have a good night, Peace out. 👊
Wow perfect ... This shows a real pattern of travel superb great work Chuck this has to be lidar territory now certainly ? All the best excellent work ....Phil .
Thanks Phil. I saw the coolest thing ever on that TV show on National Geographic. They were walking through the jungle with with a LIDAR pad in front of their face...a little smaller than the average laptop screen....and with jungle trees and underbrush right in front of them they could see the surrounding ruins and pyramids. Just walking.
@@cfapps7865 that amazing mate ! That would be some footage to watch lidar could be such amazing tool use in the future for us aswell ... All the very best mate great work as always .! Take care mate all the very best to you and your family .Phil.🙂👍
@@ancientalternativeview9011Thanks. My brother has a monumental birthday Wednesday. . Mom just called and said she'd throw a present and a card out her car window tomorrow on a drive by.. He will be golfing, but at least I got that to look forward to on Tuesday.
@@cfapps7865 - I don't think it's a handheld LIDAR scanner (think X-Ray Specs) - I think it is 'augmented reality' based on LIDAR data. Lin says: "we had this augmented reality platform built based off the LIDAR data, and it should be able to tell us what's beyond the trees, and it says there;s a massive temple just around the corner..." so it would be a super Google Earth plus LIDAR oriented by GPS and sensors for angle and direction = normally they'd use goggles but hardly safe in Jaguar territory... Still very handy. I always wanted to send away for those X-Ray specs advertised in the comics back in the '60s and '70s... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_specs
Thanks for the video, great site. There were rumors that a sort of hall of records was possibly there at this site. There are caves and other interesting carved throughout the surrounding hills. I saw a documentary on a trip to this site in search for links to Atlantis type stuff and a possible hall of records, cool watch but the Jungle has most of the ruins obscured. Thanks for all your videos.
Yep. There's quite a few sites along that river but none of them are visible on Google Earth (with the exception of Yaxchilan) because of that dense canopy. I hope you and your family are doing well in these uncertain times. Stay safe, Chuck.
I live in Houston and am an alumnus of the University of Houston. The University owns and uses a twin engine aircraft equipped with LIDAR that has explored Mesoamerica. Much of the backwoods areas in Guatamala are infested with sand flies that carry leshmaniasis. That is a horrible parasite that is disfiguring much like leprosy.
Yeah the turtle thing. Was that introduced by them into the spiritual realm of the north american natives/ or vice versa or was the turtle part of some earlier common origin. Very intrigued by some of your recent videos showing rather large settlements in the southern part of the US. And the similarities to the central/south american examples still in place. Hard to believe there were no links between the 'Americas' when there is ample evidence of ancient and far reaching trade between the near east and Europe for example. I saw something regarding the blue dye used in Mexico/central America having, via mass spectrometer analysis, to be largely from one of the southern states in US. Always more question than answers. I hope I'm still around when the PhD types finally dig into this and perhaps find the links. Cool stuff always. I think sometimes your going to run out of material , perhaps not :-). Thanks
cf-apps7865 We would need a year, at the least! Maybe 10! I would love to go see, even just one site. Since seeing your Native American series, I won't be wandering aimlessly around the country the next time I take off. My path will look more like a connect the dots game. LOL
It seems like there are so many sites in the Americas some older than 12,000 years. There's a whole history we have no idea about. They traded with each other and disappeared about that 12K time period. Some time after that the process seems to have started again going all the way until only few hundred years ago when the Europeans invaded and decimated populations probably mostly due to contagious diseases. That's just a short overview the in between history must be amazing. I truly believe they traded with civilizations from Africa thousands of years ago and possibly Egypt, the Levant, Europe, maybe even China. So much is buried under jungle or 400 feet of ocean and silt. I hope in my lifetime they find out some of these hidden secrets.
The question is were they one of the 12 tribes of Israel... some have said that they were the tribe of Issachar. Issachar was a master of astrology and writing... just like the Mayans.
I wonder what the landscape looked like when the place was inhabited? Said another way, I wonder how much jungle there was in Central and South America back then. Seems like maybe very little.
Maybe they paddled to the afterlife. Like we see from Egypt in those afterlife scenes where they paddled their boats on the celestial Nile. I did a video on a paddlers scene in rock art from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota too. Just a thought.
In the recently released Rockstar video game 'Red Dead Redemption II' set between the years 1888 and 1899 they have a mission where the player is tasked to save his ex-girlfriend's brother from a religious sect named the 'Chelonians.' This group worships turtles. Now I know where this idea came from. Classic.
i lived in guatemala for 10 years and visited almost all mayan archaeological sites. I still miss piedra negra and el mirador, but next time I visit my friends in guatemala, I will definitely go there!
Thanks for your video!
If you find the Hall of Records, please let the world know.
I love that you find these rarely talked about locations, thank you for all that you bring us.
Thanks. There are so many I'm glad to bring something else to the table. Not that hard to find.
If it is called the entrance, maybe its an entrance. Pardon my big brain idea. I would love to see some LIDAR scans of that area. Fascinating. Love the channel, by far the best out there. Hope everyone is well.
Thanks. If you have National Geographic channel look for their show on this place. They did many today. I recorded a few. They were walking through the jungle with a LIDAR pad in front of their faces...with undergrowth all around them they were looking through it all, checking out the ruins and pyramids through that pad....I was blown away.
@@cfapps7865 great thanks for the recommendation. I don't have a TV, but I'll try and find it online. Sounds like quite the site.
@Ian Sayers Cenotes were very important. But seems most were up by the Yuchatan. The Turtle symbolism seems important. It has to do with their creation myth. But their connection with places like Chichen Itza and the turtle symbolism makes me think this was an early important place.
Ian Sayers I have never heard of cenotes, can anyone provide a link to some more info. On this topic please?
@@SuperHoneyOil video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000161-4d54-d807-a9f3-4d5c18240000
Glad I found your channel. Excellent work my friend.
Thanks Curtis.
Thanks cf. Great info as always.
Absolutely fascinating Chuck! This site is quite huge, i'm very impressed by all the carvings and artworks. Those Mayans were pretty damn amazing.
I just watched a video on Antonio Zamora's channel, when even Antonio is talking about the pandemic, you know that thing is no joke.😂 pretty interesting video.
Thanks Chuck, very cool site, very cool video, have a good night, Peace out. 👊
You are a legend keep up the amazing work!
Very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I hope to get there later this year.
Wow perfect ... This shows a real pattern of travel superb great work Chuck this has to be lidar territory now certainly ? All the best excellent work ....Phil .
Thanks Phil. I saw the coolest thing ever on that TV show on National Geographic. They were walking through the jungle with with a LIDAR pad in front of their face...a little smaller than the average laptop screen....and with jungle trees and underbrush right in front of them they could see the surrounding ruins and pyramids. Just walking.
@@cfapps7865 that amazing mate ! That would be some footage to watch lidar could be such amazing tool use in the future for us aswell ... All the very best mate great work as always .! Take care mate all the very best to you and your family .Phil.🙂👍
@@ancientalternativeview9011Thanks. My brother has a monumental birthday Wednesday. . Mom just called and said she'd throw a present and a card out her car window tomorrow on a drive by.. He will be golfing, but at least I got that to look forward to on Tuesday.
@@cfapps7865 - I don't think it's a handheld LIDAR scanner (think X-Ray Specs) - I think it is 'augmented reality' based on LIDAR data. Lin says: "we had this augmented reality platform built based off the LIDAR data, and it should be able to tell us what's beyond the trees, and it says there;s a massive temple just around the corner..." so it would be a super Google Earth plus LIDAR oriented by GPS and sensors for angle and direction = normally they'd use goggles but hardly safe in Jaguar territory...
Still very handy.
I always wanted to send away for those X-Ray specs advertised in the comics back in the '60s and '70s...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_specs
Awesome...would love to go there
Thank you I needed that during my quarantine days
Great video, thank you.
ay mate ive been away and got lots to catch up on..awesome vids as usual mate,cheers 🇦🇺🤘
Great video! Great job too! Like to be a helper, on an expedition anywhere around there! Probably wouldn’t happen but..I can dream.. thanks 😊
Been following you a long time now, just thought id say thanks for all the work you put into these and keep it up buddy:)
Considering the hot & humid tropical location...and how difficult it is to build in that location. This
cultural site was a remarkable achievement.
History is so fascinating , i always imagine how these structres would look in their glory
Thanks for the video, great site. There were rumors that a sort of hall of records was possibly there at this site. There are caves and other interesting carved throughout the surrounding hills. I saw a documentary on a trip to this site in search for links to Atlantis type stuff and a possible hall of records, cool watch but the Jungle has most of the ruins obscured.
Thanks for all your videos.
thx. hope you are well.
Amazing. That cave was something imagine the rest
It's really fascinating how much archeological sites there are in this World...
Yep. There's quite a few sites along that river but none of them are visible on Google Earth (with the exception of Yaxchilan) because of that dense canopy. I hope you and your family are doing well in these uncertain times. Stay safe, Chuck.
Thanks. You too. This place had a pretty direct connection with Yaxchilan.
I live in Houston and am an alumnus of the University of Houston. The University owns and uses a twin engine aircraft equipped with LIDAR that has explored Mesoamerica. Much of the backwoods areas in Guatamala are infested with sand flies that carry leshmaniasis. That is a horrible parasite that is disfiguring much like leprosy.
Yes...Turtle Island was what some of the ancient called the America's prior to colonization.
Yeah the turtle thing. Was that introduced by them into the spiritual realm of the north american natives/ or vice versa or was the turtle part of some earlier common origin.
Very intrigued by some of your recent videos showing rather large settlements in the southern part of the US. And the similarities to the central/south american examples still in place.
Hard to believe there were no links between the 'Americas' when there is ample evidence of ancient and far reaching trade between the near east and Europe for example.
I saw something regarding the blue dye used in Mexico/central America having, via mass spectrometer analysis, to be largely from one of the southern states in US.
Always more question than answers. I hope I'm still around when the PhD types finally dig into this and perhaps find the links.
Cool stuff always. I think sometimes your going to run out of material , perhaps not :-). Thanks
It would be interesting to know how many of these sites have remnants of megalithic works.
Mexico jade is mined in a secret spot and it’s nice. I watched a documentary on it. Another great video thank you 🙏
Thanks Andy.
I would love to go there
Yep. One of at least 50 sites like this in Mesoamerica,
cf-apps7865
We would need a year, at the least! Maybe 10! I would love to go see, even just one site. Since seeing your Native American series, I won't be wandering aimlessly around the country the next time I take off. My path will look more like a connect the dots game. LOL
Ugh! The logistics of getting there must be crazy!
A lot like Lamanai in Belize, both on a river with many pyramids.
It seems like there are so many sites in the Americas some older than 12,000 years. There's a whole history we have no idea about. They traded with each other and disappeared about that 12K time period. Some time after that the process seems to have started again going all the way until only few hundred years ago when the Europeans invaded and decimated populations probably mostly due to contagious diseases. That's just a short overview the in between history must be amazing. I truly believe they traded with civilizations from Africa thousands of years ago and possibly Egypt, the Levant, Europe, maybe even China. So much is buried under jungle or 400 feet of ocean and silt. I hope in my lifetime they find out some of these hidden secrets.
The question is were they one of the 12 tribes of Israel... some have said that they were the tribe of Issachar. Issachar was a master of astrology and writing... just like the Mayans.
Check out my El Dorado video.
I wonder what the landscape looked like when the place was inhabited? Said another way, I wonder how much jungle there was in Central and South America back then. Seems like maybe very little.
No Lidar of the area?
do you have that link?
Looks scary!
The paddler gods. Interesting. Did they paddle from across the ocean?
Maybe they paddled to the afterlife. Like we see from Egypt in those afterlife scenes where they paddled their boats on the celestial Nile. I did a video on a paddlers scene in rock art from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota too. Just a thought.
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It's obvious that we've all lost our Mayans.
They are hanging sheetrock in Tulsa for Green County LLC.
Strange that they couldn't build ocean going boats.
3:52 like a Sikh style 200-pound turban
So were they one of the 12 tribes of Israel?
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I know a buncha marked areas look for clouds pyramids cause clouds I can show an example
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Look more atlantian
In the recently released Rockstar video game 'Red Dead Redemption II' set between the years 1888 and 1899 they have a mission where the player is tasked to save his ex-girlfriend's brother from a religious sect named the 'Chelonians.' This group worships turtles. Now I know where this idea came from. Classic.
That's racist!
Considering the hot & humid tropical location...and how difficult it is to build in that location. This cultural site was a remarkable achievement.