From u.k. What really blows my mind, the Mayan didn’t have metal tools! No I don’t wear a tinfoil hat! But it makes you think! Looking at their architecture, and the colours It was painted. Compared to anything else it looks OTHERWORLDLY ? No metal tools!🛸👽 Been into Aztec, Olmec, Mayan, since I was a kid.
@@timeprotector4320…The professor is right…LiDAR technology is finding structures that we thought were just hills. It’s rewriting history as we know it…exposing just how vast these empires were.
They designed it that way. There some secrets that are to big or logistically speaking hard to hide so they secure them scrub them from google earth and spread misinformation about such remote places. They hide our history from us because it would reveal most of what they teach us is fabricated or heavily edited and redacted. You can’t go here or there. Sooooo many islands on google earth will aways have some sort of building seemingly in the middle of nowhere no explanation. I truly believe they’ve been having an underground network of interconnected tunnels that connect globally. Another thing is a lot of these places are only accessible if you pay for a expedition service (always some obscure unheard of company) and when you go it’s not like you can just catch a ride and explore you have to stay with them. In other words they don’t want people making any discoveries they haven’t made or find any secrets they are hiding.
True. I was also happy when they used it to show us what the Titanic looks like under the sea. Its impossible to take pictures of it in the dark cold ocean. Lidar is awesome.
You know years ago when people used to document everything and store it in libraries things like personal accounts maps and drawings? Well all these "lost cities" and "lost history" isn't lost at all. When Christianity spread around the world all libraries where ransacked and destroyed if anyone wants to know where any "lost" things are ask the Vatican
There still alive they just moved away cuz it’s was smallpox or for yall in the UK the “black plague “ Nothing has changed , Mayes & Aztec are still very much alive and active in the markets How do I know this? My friends are Mayens just chilling here I’m currently in Mexico for 6 months and nothing much has changed Just like the Norman’s conquered the Celtics and angleos saxons they moved away far from London There still here there just normal people who shop and wash like normal people
Drumpf will still call all countries to the south to be shi#hole countries. He has no sense of history. Doesn't even understand 1930s Germany when his daddy was stealing from Newyorkers
I worked in construction with the nicest Mayan gentleman who was a plasterer. He was such an artist. One day he held up his hands and showed me how his fingers on each hand were all the same length. It was so cool looking and he felt it added to his artistic abilities. He grew up surrounded by decaying temples in the jungle. I never knew he was an obscure entity, BBC.
Mayans exist just not the civilisation any more It's like Rome not being around any more but people can still trace their heritage back to the Roman empire
@@Ktmfan450not quite because there aren't any romans left, at least no one identifies as Roman, yet there are millions of mayans in South America that identify as Mayan
Until they decide to cut your heart out…..they and the Aztecs had a few things in common. But not as frequently apparently. But sacrifices to the underwater caves were common. They are still being found underwater and deep in the caves. Including kids.😞. But they were fast in their construction techniques, astrology, and weapons at the time. A few more centuries and they may of figured out how to use iron (not to sound insulting, they lacked large domestic animals which gave Europeans an advantage in tech, mobility, and disease resistance. Yes, disease resistance because when domesticating animals people usually get sick and die…but resistance builds up after a few generations). They were smart, the only thing I would try to convince them to do was the human sacrifice. But not thru ironic violence myself. Old traditions literally die hard. That includes human sacrifice apparently.😖
@@equargAlmost every culture around the world has had human sacrifice at some point in time. The Maya only sacrificed children during extreme famine and they sacrificed war captives, not their own citizens. Quit exaggerating.
They flew over it using lidar to detect changes in the ground. How on earth was that by 'accident'? It's like going to Tesco to buy milk, and accidentally, buying milk.
Thing is though they can't really say anything that isn't nonsensical about this. We've been finding things in the Amazon practically weekly for decades and most people are oblivious to the fact there were tens of millions of people living there. This is only another new discovery in a long list from the last few years but they can't really say that as the average member of the public knows absolutely nothing.
I dont mean to nitpick here but if you are using lidar scanner to LOOK for ancient structures, it was NOT found by accident... Just clal it as it is. They were looking and found something... Really cool that they did find something and I really dont want to take anything away from the discovery but just call it as it is.
@@Nikitateagurl_77 The opposite. LIDAR was done a decade ago for ecological reasons. A archeology student went through the data a decade later and found the city.
Actually it was an accidental find when Luke from Tulane University found in old Lidar and Satellite images from 2013 using google sitting behind his computer Know the facts before make an ass out of yourself
I grew up near one of the oldest Indian mounds in America and helped discover it in the 70s because I loved digging and found thousands of arrowheads. it’s called Watson brake in northeast Louisiana. There were also 9-11 ft skeletons excavated there and last I heard the Smithsonian stole them from our local uni that was 40 years ago though
@@samh2088 Well, all my family and many of my friends are from Europe. I've lived there a few times in a couple different countries. I've heard this from many people.
Didn’t know I faded ‘into obscurity”. Let me tell my family, as well as other Mayans that live in Southern Mexico, and Central America that we don’t exist. So the invaders story goes.
Oh don't worry, you're not alone, according to these idiots my people (the Anglo-Saxons) never existed. It's their tendency to retrospectively eradicate entire peoples in their desire to sate their nazi desire to genocide others.
Seven thousand buildings! Not including all the other cities they have found, crazy that people think there were only a few million people in “North America” when the European immigrants came.
I’m not an expert but there may have only been a few million left when Europeans did come, they were a “living civilization” for 3000-3500 years, imagine what the U.S., Canada, or the UAE will look like in 3000 years from today, even if they are just a ruined civilization by then…. Also only them as examples because of how relatively young they are as country and how far they have grown in that timeframe.
You have to consider that those cities aren't from the exact same time, the invaders came. Many mayan cities had peaked in poulation a long time before the spanish came during the Mayan classical period and then fell into ruin , were abandoned or became much smaller than at their peak. The mayans were in a rather sorry state, when the spanish encountered them, compared to previous centuries. The Aztecs on the other hand were pretty much in a golden age around that time and had a very large population.
@@MMadesen and we only have a biased European perspective to validate this, just like native groups did not interact with others in different areas, yet corn was as far as what would become “New England” when the Europeans showed up👍🏼.
If you are referring to the amount of people living in these Mayan cities they refer to in the video then yes the number is not that great as many were abandoned centuries prior to European colonization. But as far as the whole of the Americas there was an estimated 150-180 million native Americans living there with many succumbing to disease/genocide as a result of European colonization.
“This is in Guatemala, this time in Mexico” “Central America” Which is it? And Mexico is North America. Incredible that a news station would publish geographical inaccuracy.
Mexico is Central America geographically. It’s North America historically and politically. Given that this is video is about the Mayan civilisation, which predates the historical and political context of counting Mexico as North America, I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong of them to call it Central America.
The Mayans did not fade into History. The Spanish Conquistadors murdered them in a truly shocking and awful way, and then passed on lethal illness. THANKFULLY some survived and are still alive to pass on to humanity their ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom, in an age that needs it.
If you search ancient mayan artwork, ir will reveal the swarthy complexion of the Indigenous Mayan. They were definitely dark-skinned, but I'm sure the world will find a way to deny the truth. When will the true Indigenous Americans be recognized as Black people that were already here, pre colonialism... Ancient American Maps that were written in Latin describing the people already here will show the truth. GIVE US OUR FLOWERS... I'm sick of it rest of world.
@RogertBawlsenz-rc3pq doing what? Alien sex? Pseudo scientists and fantasist like the idea of extra terrestrial beings building ancient marvels or buildings.
The mayans did not disappeared, they keep living all Around Yucatan, Guatemala and even in El Salvador. To say they just dissapear is to justify appropiation from goberment and foreign archeologist/museums to rip it off.
2:11 NEVER miss an opportunity to mention CLIMATE CHANGE, even though Mayans were largely gone before industrial revolution had a chance to pick up steam. Thanks BBC.
Climate Change does not have to mean that humans were the cause. The earth's ever changing climate has removed plenty of civilizations over the course of history
Way to show how uninformed you are. Climate change just means variations in the climate that last decades or more. The classic Maya collapse was likely partly caused by climate change, there is evidence of decades long large droughts around the time of the Maya collapse that probably had a role in the collapse. I love how you just heard a buzzword and your brain just couldn't handle it and stopped thinking, ironically you are the dumb one here.
@@Tozzlt you're definitely a Redditor, "uhm akkkchewually the planetarium i went to that one time with my wife's boyfriend" 🤣 shut up there is like 40 different theories on how their civilization regressed, these mo-fos had irrigation and damns n sht, and you can go on about how you should eat bugs to change the weather because bill gates told you too but a drought didn't wipe them out either. The truth is we don't really know what happened we're just making thing up shows how uninformed you are because nobody is informed because there is no actual complete information because we don't know.
If any of you even remotely believe Mayans have faded into obscurity, then just what do you think most Guatemalan & southern Mexican ppl are? The shorter darker Hispanics, they’re usually part Mayan at least but there’s plenty full blooded ones still
Yes, also some of these indigenous people don't speak Spanish. Probably speaking a language closer to what their Mayan ancestors spoke. Would be fascinating to study.
This is like saying the Roman empire didn't fall because the descendants of Rome are still around. Of course Mayan peoples are still there, and elements of the culture and language still exist, but, much like the Roman empire, the grand civilization that once existed, government, trade networks, military, etc. have been lost to history.
@@TheBS1000Well the Maya itself wasn't a united group of people and cultures not an empire so to speak. It was and still is a bunch of people with different traditions that share common elements. If I wanted to make a super simple comparison it would be like that of the Celts throughout Europe or the "Vikings" as people think of them.
so she’s Native American hope she and her family know their ancestry many got tricked into using bs terms like “hispanic/latino” 🤢 that erases ancestry
I wish they reported on how it was accidentally discovered, and where in Mexico it is exactly. I know where the Mayans were overall, but it's a pretty big area.
You’re telling me a local didn’t go wandering in the woods 15 mins away from the city center? The locals knew, they just didn’t want the whole world to know.
So what are the crossing street so my Uber driver can get me here ?? I’ll bring my metal detector and it’s a wrap . Thank you for leaving me some gifts and souvenirs y’all ! Lol
So we discovered something we've not seen but you can't show us because you haven't actually seen it so you show us something you think it may have looked like. Wow thank you BBC. I now understand the secrets of the universe.
Those were well older than mainstream's "2000 yrs old" It was all inherited by these child sacrificing people that hoped the watchers that taught the original people who built these megaliths would one day come back
@@siyem2051 I agree. I believe Egyptians, myans, aztecs, incas, olmecs even Sumerians and other ancient civilizations found most of these megalithic structures/cities, built by an even more ancient people with different type of technology.
@@marcosetnavrec899I really wonder what civilization built this stuff before the Mayans inherited it. Maybe Plato’s Atlantis was real. If we wanna go even further maybe the Annunaki were real
Watch Reset of Tartaria by Zachary. You will be very surprised why these ancient civilizations are gone. BBC just did it on much of surface with some twist of truth and lie.
See what bugs me about journalism is the lack of in depth research. Sure, i know that this is only one of ten stories on the writers desks. But maybe, just maybe, run a few stories by the experts? The Maya still exist.
1. Mexico is not in Central America, it is in North America. 2. The Maya did not disappear, there are still a lot of them in the Yucatan Peninsula and Central America.
Yep, they refuse to let go of that made up science/environment scam. The story could be about kittens playing, and somehow they would manage to throw in clim@te ch@nge. They do that in just about every story. 🤡😵💫🥴
Amazing news! I hope they also preserve the natural rainforest surrounding the site, now that the new is out. It add to the beauty and so much of the the rainforest has been cut down.
Here come the spelling and grammar nazis 😂😂 why do you loosers think spelling and grammar are important on youtube of all things 😭😭 I was gonna say anytime a girl texts you do you call her out and tell her not to text you until she can spell properly. But I doubt you dorks get any 😂
So a misogynist civilization, that routinely sacrificed (killed) women and children, bought and sold slaves, colonized North and Central American are more noble than European colonizers because, they're Brown?
I live in the southeast of Mexico, and there are still millions of Mayan persons, still speaking Maya, having their Mayan customs, and very proud of their roots. When they speak Spanish they still keep their accent and is common to mix words from both languages. Just wanted to point out that Mayans as a civilization never ceased to exist, this is just different times.
The studio presenter sounds like she’s clinically depressed and the second woman sounds very uninterested. Once again the BBC proves that it can make even the most interesting stories sound like the hospital telling you a loved one has died in a car crash
Im not sure why you say that because this discovery proves that Hancock is right, there are ancient cities and discoveries still to be made which archaeologists' like Dibble are simply not looking for
This must have been a smaller city from where their neighboring larger cities, with the largest pyramids, got their slaves and human sacrifices to sacrifice on top of pyramids. It’s more likely that the people of these smaller cities were the ones who became allies of the Spanish colonizers.
bbc never leaves their island, why u think they wanted brexit? they love isolation! & they wont be allowed to colonize the area anymore, sooo why leave?!
Of course it's news - it was just discovered. It's always pretty cool to hear about these things if you have an interest in them. It wasn't presented as something shocking and phenomenal.
@@sgoredraw1455 What proof do archeologists have that makes their claims 100% true when it comes to the time these megalithic structures were built and how they were built? I know damn well people from 3000 years ago didn't make these with hammers and chisels. What makes more sense is that myans like other ancient civilizations found these already built structures (built by an even more ancient civilization) and decided to make them their homes.
I remember coming across a long abandoned Leper colony on a jungle river in Suriname. A very small comparison, but I still feel the chills now. Like a plantation, with tall trees grown through everything. Didn't hang around. Scary as could be.
Climate change was a factor? Did the Mayans drive too many cars and SUVs? Did their factories produce too much CO2? Where did their greenhouse gases come from?
Not war or climate change, it was the conquistadors who destroyed the Mayan Civilizations. These people had no need for wars; they led an agricultural and peaceful existence.
@@curiositycloset2359 Well today they definitely call themselves Mayans. We travelled around there extensively a few years ago. We even were invited to a party by a Mayan family. One woman had made a guacamole that contained ground pumpkin seeds. She explained it was a traditional Mayan recipe.
The Mayans didn't "fade into obscurity" around 300 years ago (that would have been the 18th century). The Mayans left their cities for more rural settlements in the mid-tenth century, the the late-classical period. This was over a thousand years ago! But kudos the BBC for reporting on the topic, it's amazing what we're finding in the wilds today.
“Archeologists find a huge city” you’d think after thousands of years all the huge stuff would be found. These archeologists are probably fkn rock stars in their community right now
"Due to factors such as war and disease, the Mayans faded into obscurity about 300 years ago". The English are still in massive denial about the crimes of colonialism, eh?
There is a book that talk about the stories of this civilization, but in that book they are known as Nephites and Lamanites. The book is called The Book Of Mormon.
The great Maya cities did collapse due to climate change; although not a global one like today. Deforestation and severe droughts contributed to the fall.
I love how you have to make a point to call them out... As if climate change isn't the biggest challenge we have ever had to face (well, half of us are facing it. Half are confusing science with ignorant opinion).
@@adammiller9179 Thank you. We don't have agreement. But we have clarity. I think Islamo-Fascism, illegal immigration, and exorbitant government spending on social entitlements far outweigh and vastly more troublesome than any concern of climate alarmism. BTW< I wouldn't feel compelled to point it out, if the alarmist didn't take every opportunity to brainwash and gaslight.
@@joe18750 Not weather. Deforestation literally changed the climate for the Maya city-states and durably caused droughts. I really don't see another way to put it. It's documented fact, not alarmism.
@@AbelPeña2067 Indeed - amongst other atrocities, including slave ownership (primarily in the plantation colonies, but still - which opens a whole other can of worms that, ironically, 'those pesky Brits' played a substantive role in ending) - along with the French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and every other nation sending settlers over (both before and after the formal split from any 'British' identity) - many of whom also found themselves in a 'subjugated minority' and subjected to discrimination - yet another can of worms pertaining to the current round of simply casting 'blame' [ostensibly for all of society's ills] and focus on immigration numbers to 'fix'. All of which is to say, when you look at history, it's so much easier to 'point the finger' and try to cast 'blame' on some demographic, or other, than it is to simply pay attention to see what's really going on around you. When it comes to the things that governments do - regardless of the era, or geography, or 'resource' concerned, the 'powers that be' would rather have people looking at each other for culpability (the 'hidden enemy within'), than to see what they are up to through clear eyes. This is why the 'political lens' (and having everybody 'assigned' to one) is working so well for Late Stage Capitalism - nothing like historical grievances to whet the stone that sharpens the blades of 'moral high ground' - and yet we fall for it generation after generation (myself included, at times - lol). All of _that_ said, thanks for the contribution and addition of more context to the progressive subjugation of the Americas by Europe and the, so called, 'Old World' of the 14th to 20th Centuries.
OH for goodness sake .. its not by accident thats why they use lider ....its not the first site they have found by lider .... I live close to all these newly found sites ....And its at least 1 1/2 hour drive from the city of Campeche ....
People are discovering ancient ruins every year in Mexico. It is estimated that Approximately 20% of ruins have been discovered. There are NO mountains in Mexico, and any ruins that have been discovered is under landscape that has grown over the temples/ruins over hundreds/thousands of years.
Finally some news thats not about war, people dying or corruption. This stuff is really interesting (to me anyway) and its a nice change
to us!!! I actively search for this refreshing news
From u.k.
What really blows my mind, the Mayan didn’t have metal
tools!
No I don’t wear a tinfoil hat!
But it makes you think!
Looking at their architecture, and the colours
It was painted.
Compared to anything else it looks OTHERWORLDLY ?
No metal tools!🛸👽
Been into Aztec, Olmec, Mayan, since I was a kid.
You missed the part 02:08, "war, climate change and the Spanish invasion caused the collapse of the Mayans".
@@MaxBrix but that was long time ago
It was literally about those things, the Mayans didn't just get bored then decide to move house.
my archaeology professor used to say: hills in these forests are buildings.
Well then they to the classic. If you cant do, Teach.
They arent buildings lol
This isn't the Amazon though.
@@timeprotector4320…The professor is right…LiDAR technology is finding structures that we thought were just hills. It’s rewriting history as we know it…exposing just how vast these empires were.
His-story…who is he? All the hidden stories…truth will out, in due course. Keep your books folks!
Some are. Some of our huge mountains are intertwined with the layline
Up to 50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town
Exactly what i thought hahahaha
Bands don't play no more
Too much fighting on the dance floor.
@@adamw8579What exactly is so funny?
@@a1Addyask your son
@@sjsharksx408x is this supposed to be a comeback? i feel sad for you if that’s the case.
Glad we are now measuring in Edinburghs. I was struggling with football fields. 😐
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It’s crazy how much of this world is still unexplored especially the ocean!
Especially the deserts
The arctic too.
They designed it that way. There some secrets that are to big or logistically speaking hard to hide so they secure them scrub them from google earth and spread misinformation about such remote places. They hide our history from us because it would reveal most of what they teach us is fabricated or heavily edited and redacted. You can’t go here or there. Sooooo many islands on google earth will aways have some sort of building seemingly in the middle of nowhere no explanation. I truly believe they’ve been having an underground network of interconnected tunnels that connect globally. Another thing is a lot of these places are only accessible if you pay for a expedition service (always some obscure unheard of company) and when you go it’s not like you can just catch a ride and explore you have to stay with them. In other words they don’t want people making any discoveries they haven’t made or find any secrets they are hiding.
@@bamf6603 ocean only 10% explored.
By europeans or just by people?
Lidar is such a gift lol discovering these ancient cities has been so fascinating.
I wonder if Lidar can detect all those Trump stolen Official Secret Documents at Bedminster!
True. I was also happy when they used it to show us what the Titanic looks like under the sea. Its impossible to take pictures of it in the dark cold ocean. Lidar is awesome.
You know years ago when people used to document everything and store it in libraries things like personal accounts maps and drawings? Well all these "lost cities" and "lost history" isn't lost at all. When Christianity spread around the world all libraries where ransacked and destroyed if anyone wants to know where any "lost" things are ask the Vatican
Is lidar and sonar the same?
@@colasevenseas5652No. LiDAR uses lasers and sonar uses sound tech
This is so fascinating, so interesting to think that this area was left alone for centuries
There still alive they just moved away cuz it’s was smallpox or for yall in the UK the “black plague “
Nothing has changed , Mayes & Aztec are still very much alive and active in the markets
How do I know this? My friends are Mayens just chilling here
I’m currently in Mexico for 6 months and nothing much has changed
Just like the Norman’s conquered the Celtics and angleos saxons they moved away far from London
There still here there just normal people who shop and wash like normal people
@@tripx3033smallpox and the black plague are different
Drumpf will still call all countries to the south to be shi#hole countries. He has no sense of history. Doesn't even understand 1930s Germany when his daddy was stealing from Newyorkers
@@willymo6543 Do you not know what quotations mean in that context?
Alex Peirera
Warm greetings from Mayan Lands, GUATEMALA 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇧🇿🇭🇳🇸🇻
Bien ! ❤
Greetings from the MAYAN LAND, México.
This was MEXICO before Guatemala got it's independence. #KnowYourHistory
@@TheKaliking03 Guatemala (Central America) only joined the First Mexican Empire for ONLY 2 years, #STUDYYOURHISTORY
@@TuristasEn-GUATEMALA_PLAYLISTS Ummm, no. Mexico was the modern southwest of the United States all the way down to Chile. #LearningIsKnowing
Due to the continued crap currently on the air in the U.S. this will probably be missed by most. Shame, this is truly amazing.
The continued crap may lead to stunning archaeological finds by a future intelligent species ;-)
TRUMP!!!
Fr, kamala is brainless and it just feels wrong to see Trump is on the pole
@@ronald3836 Cockroaches.
@@ronald3836Are you really glorifying crap ? 😂😂 smh
I make this mistake all the time. Accidentally flying my expensive radar plane around, accidentally sharing the data with my archaeologist buddies.
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They were searching for oil, gold, silver etc.
They were searching for evidence of something so they could destroy it. PS the guy is a douche because the aztecs and mayas did have a metal industry
Such a simple mistake 😂
This is how I found out I have neighbours downstairs
I worked in construction with the nicest Mayan gentleman who was a plasterer. He was such an artist. One day he held up his hands and showed me how his fingers on each hand were all the same length. It was so cool looking and he felt it added to his artistic abilities. He grew up surrounded by decaying temples in the jungle. I never knew he was an obscure entity, BBC.
That’s incredible. We are so lucky to have more information to study on the Mayans.
Mayans exist just not the civilisation any more
It's like Rome not being around any more but people can still trace their heritage back to the Roman empire
@@Ktmfan450not quite because there aren't any romans left, at least no one identifies as Roman, yet there are millions of mayans in South America that identify as Mayan
@georgeyboy8186 That's why I said it was similar to Rome and Byzantium
@@georgeyboy8186Get a map and find the difference between South America, Central America and North America.
Ancient Mayas were expert astronomers, surgeons, mathematicians, sailors and medics.
And gamers
Egyptians, Arabs and Greeks : Nah I’d Win
and aircraft technicians!
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Now they create meth and fentonyl
the Maya had literacy, advanced math, big cities and smoked cigars and drank chocolate for pleasure. Sound like a cool people
@@izzyci Chocolate was kind of ass back then
Until they decide to cut your heart out…..they and the Aztecs had a few things in common.
But not as frequently apparently.
But sacrifices to the underwater caves were common. They are still being found underwater and deep in the caves.
Including kids.😞.
But they were fast in their construction techniques, astrology, and weapons at the time.
A few more centuries and they may of figured out how to use iron (not to sound insulting, they lacked large domestic animals which gave Europeans an advantage in tech, mobility, and disease resistance. Yes, disease resistance because when domesticating animals people usually get sick and die…but resistance builds up after a few generations).
They were smart, the only thing I would try to convince them to do was the human sacrifice. But not thru ironic violence myself.
Old traditions literally die hard. That includes human sacrifice apparently.😖
@@equargthose sacrifice happen today…
@@equargAlmost every culture around the world has had human sacrifice at some point in time. The Maya only sacrificed children during extreme famine and they sacrificed war captives, not their own citizens. Quit exaggerating.
Cool, until they did sacrificing rituals of young people to some gods. For me most of the old cultures are barbarians. Some worse than others.
They flew over it using lidar to detect changes in the ground. How on earth was that by 'accident'? It's like going to Tesco to buy milk, and accidentally, buying milk.
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Thing is though they can't really say anything that isn't nonsensical about this. We've been finding things in the Amazon practically weekly for decades and most people are oblivious to the fact there were tens of millions of people living there. This is only another new discovery in a long list from the last few years but they can't really say that as the average member of the public knows absolutely nothing.
the hint of the location was found few months ago by accidentally find uncommon contour from satellite photos.
lol, good point. Why do they need to sensationalize it? It's already incredible.
Think of it this way then… imagine you went to Tesco to buy milk but then you accidentally found the most delicious milkshake ever?
I dont mean to nitpick here but if you are using lidar scanner to LOOK for ancient structures, it was NOT found by accident... Just clal it as it is. They were looking and found something... Really cool that they did find something and I really dont want to take anything away from the discovery but just call it as it is.
True. typical b.s. BBC
Some hikers discovered it and lidar was used later on
Discovered by a dog walker
@@Nikitateagurl_77 The opposite. LIDAR was done a decade ago for ecological reasons. A archeology student went through the data a decade later and found the city.
Actually it was an accidental find when Luke from Tulane University found in old Lidar and Satellite images from 2013 using google sitting behind his computer
Know the facts before make an ass out of yourself
For Europeans saying there are no ancient buildings like castles in the Americas, remember these and other indigenous ancient cultures.
They mean the us... we've always known about Aztecs and Mayan structures in .Mexico....sorry to hear you have dumb friends
Who says that? Congrats for defeating a strawman.
Literally no one says that 😂
I grew up near one of the oldest Indian mounds in America and helped discover it in the 70s because I loved digging and found thousands of arrowheads. it’s called Watson brake in northeast Louisiana. There were also 9-11 ft skeletons excavated there and last I heard the Smithsonian stole them from our local uni that was 40 years ago though
@@samh2088 Well, all my family and many of my friends are from Europe. I've lived there a few times in a couple different countries. I've heard this from many people.
Didn’t know I faded ‘into obscurity”. Let me tell my family, as well as other Mayans that live in Southern Mexico, and Central America that we don’t exist. So the invaders story goes.
Thats right we still are here and every where
@@mayamanovando9853 But your calendar ran out? 🤔😉
Oh don't worry, you're not alone, according to these idiots my people (the Anglo-Saxons) never existed. It's their tendency to retrospectively eradicate entire peoples in their desire to sate their nazi desire to genocide others.
Bomba! 😂
Sorry, did you hear something?
Must have imagined someone speaking... ;)
Seven thousand buildings! Not including all the other cities they have found, crazy that people think there were only a few million people in “North America” when the European immigrants came.
I’m not an expert but there may have only been a few million left when Europeans did come, they were a “living civilization” for 3000-3500 years, imagine what the U.S., Canada, or the UAE will look like in 3000 years from today, even if they are just a ruined civilization by then…. Also only them as examples because of how relatively young they are as country and how far they have grown in that timeframe.
You have to consider that those cities aren't from the exact same time, the invaders came.
Many mayan cities had peaked in poulation a long time before the spanish came during the Mayan classical period and then fell into ruin , were abandoned or became much smaller than at their peak.
The mayans were in a rather sorry state, when the spanish encountered them, compared to previous centuries. The Aztecs on the other hand were pretty much in a golden age around that time and had a very large population.
@@MMadesen and we only have a biased European perspective to validate this, just like native groups did not interact with others in different areas, yet corn was as far as what would become “New England” when the Europeans showed up👍🏼.
If you are referring to the amount of people living in these Mayan cities they refer to in the video then yes the number is not that great as many were abandoned centuries prior to European colonization. But as far as the whole of the Americas there was an estimated 150-180 million native Americans living there with many succumbing to disease/genocide as a result of European colonization.
European invaders
Mexico is such a great country with a rich history. I love visiting there.
No is a shithole full of narcos and shitty people
Love visiting Mexico! Amazing people and beautiful culture! Looking forward to seeing San Miguel!
A “great country” with non-potable water! 😂
@@GMBoehlerin many states there’s water. Don’t let the internet fool you . Go there yourself
@@GMBoehler it can be argued that many parts of U.S have questionable water too 😔
“This is in Guatemala, this time in Mexico” “Central America”
Which is it? And Mexico is North America. Incredible that a news station would publish geographical inaccuracy.
Mexico is Central America geographically. It’s North America historically and politically. Given that this is video is about the Mayan civilisation, which predates the historical and political context of counting Mexico as North America, I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong of them to call it Central America.
@@camelliasinensis219 you have no idea what's your talking about. how embarrassing..
Its Guatemala but Mexico is what get the views
@@pimpn2563no es guatemala es en mexico en el estado de campeche
@@pimpn2563 they literally said found in Mexico...
The Mayans did not fade into History. The Spanish Conquistadors murdered them in a truly shocking and awful way, and then passed on lethal illness. THANKFULLY some survived and are still alive to pass on to humanity their ancient knowledge and spiritual wisdom, in an age that needs it.
Say it like it is.
Cry, they were more brutal than the Spanish, they were weak and they were conquered
@John-k5y3i some people have no clue about history. What you've said is very true they were brutal
@@gman6197 you find a lot like this hanging around this channel
Their ancient knowledge and wisdom isn't doing much for us right now....
Wtf BBC Mayans are still here!!! We’re resilient indigenous people!
KUKULCAN❤🐉🐲
Ch'och'olch'an!
If you search ancient mayan artwork, ir will reveal the swarthy complexion of the Indigenous Mayan. They were definitely dark-skinned, but I'm sure the world will find a way to deny the truth. When will the true Indigenous Americans be recognized as Black people that were already here, pre colonialism... Ancient American Maps that were written in Latin describing the people already here will show the truth. GIVE US OUR FLOWERS... I'm sick of it rest of world.
@@shaneicea no one cares stfu and go back
Lmao ur wokeness is showing @@shaneicea
This is amazing. A lost piece of human history discovered! Imagine if there are statues or artifacts! Incredible
Imagine how much they can get sold for on the black market!
@@TheWebstaffsell it to China, lol.
Imagine if they still have books or comics still intact.
@@SusScrofaVulgaris imagine ancient aliens 👽
@RogertBawlsenz-rc3pq doing what? Alien sex? Pseudo scientists and fantasist like the idea of extra terrestrial beings building ancient marvels or buildings.
The mayans did not disappeared, they keep living all Around Yucatan, Guatemala and even in El Salvador. To say they just dissapear is to justify appropiation from goberment and foreign archeologist/museums to rip it off.
It is wild to think that civilizations come and then completely disappear
Probably allowed the jews in.
We are next ;)
Bc they got visited by caucasians and coughed on 🧞
More wild to think that they never disappear.
2:11 NEVER miss an opportunity to mention CLIMATE CHANGE, even though Mayans were largely gone before industrial revolution had a chance to pick up steam. Thanks BBC.
i was thinking the exact same thing so dumb, cause is most likely disease.
Climate Change does not have to mean that humans were the cause. The earth's ever changing climate has removed plenty of civilizations over the course of history
There were long droughts brought by deforestation so it is a kind of climate change
Way to show how uninformed you are. Climate change just means variations in the climate that last decades or more. The classic Maya collapse was likely partly caused by climate change, there is evidence of decades long large droughts around the time of the Maya collapse that probably had a role in the collapse.
I love how you just heard a buzzword and your brain just couldn't handle it and stopped thinking, ironically you are the dumb one here.
@@Tozzlt you're definitely a Redditor, "uhm akkkchewually the planetarium i went to that one time with my wife's boyfriend" 🤣 shut up there is like 40 different theories on how their civilization regressed, these mo-fos had irrigation and damns n sht, and you can go on about how you should eat bugs to change the weather because bill gates told you too but a drought didn't wipe them out either. The truth is we don't really know what happened we're just making thing up shows how uninformed you are because nobody is informed because there is no actual complete information because we don't know.
If any of you even remotely believe Mayans have faded into obscurity, then just what do you think most Guatemalan & southern Mexican ppl are? The shorter darker Hispanics, they’re usually part Mayan at least but there’s plenty full blooded ones still
Yes, also some of these indigenous people don't speak Spanish. Probably speaking a language closer to what their Mayan ancestors spoke. Would be fascinating to study.
This is like saying the Roman empire didn't fall because the descendants of Rome are still around. Of course Mayan peoples are still there, and elements of the culture and language still exist, but, much like the Roman empire, the grand civilization that once existed, government, trade networks, military, etc. have been lost to history.
Right on, coming from a mix'd person ✊🏿
Locals have known about this for generations. There’s a highway a 10 minute walk from the edge of it.
The mayas hadn't faded into oscurity. They live in south México, Guatemala and Honduras.
The descendants of their people are still among us, but the Mayan civilization is gone.
@@TheBS1000 Not at all, if we're still here so our civilization won't.
Yeah here in Honduras they still live
@@TheBS1000Well the Maya itself wasn't a united group of people and cultures not an empire so to speak. It was and still is a bunch of people with different traditions that share common elements. If I wanted to make a super simple comparison it would be like that of the Celts throughout Europe or the "Vikings" as people think of them.
Belize too
That has got to be the most amateur presentation I have ever witnessed
get onscreen and do better then.
@@michaelfisher7170 As someone who has never studied acting I could not possibly pretend enough to be oppressed and portray a fake victim ideology
Totally, beeb at its best! 🤡
Just what I was thinking. You expect better of BBC.
@@dazryan3463bloody hell daz give it a rest
My girlfriend was born in the Yucatan and is a direct descendant of Mayans
so she’s Native American hope she and her family know their ancestry many got tricked into using bs terms like “hispanic/latino” 🤢 that erases ancestry
And I am from the north of Mexico Tamaulipas to be exact and my grandma speaks Mayan
You can sell her to Europeans 🤣🤣🤣
Nice 😎
So no neck lol yucatecos
"We don't know what it looks like but this is how we imagine it"......
Don't EVER waste my time like that again
I wish they reported on how it was accidentally discovered, and where in Mexico it is exactly. I know where the Mayans were overall, but it's a pretty big area.
We don't even explored our OWN planet fully....yet we strive for stars.
Or even another dimension or universe
We? What have you done? Have you even explored your local park? lmao
@@marcosetnavrec899And the west must be wondering how come they left out this place from being exploited and plundered after all these years
what about it? cant we do both
Great people needs to be business in innovation because if they don't think almost impossible stuff they might feel like dying because of no purpose
You’re telling me a local didn’t go wandering in the woods 15 mins away from the city center?
The locals knew, they just didn’t want the whole world to know.
It’s underground and they had to use radar, the images you’re seeing aren’t what they discovered.
Dont be silly, these ruins are not 15mins away from anywhere. Theyre hours away driving.
You don't think much, huh?
Look and this fuckn guy starting a conspiracy already, why are some people all about creating distrust??
This isn’t a forest in the Midwest buddy. This is a deep dense jungle where everything wants to kill you. wouldn’t make it a mile in before dying.
So what are the crossing street so my Uber driver can get me here ??
I’ll bring my metal detector and it’s a wrap . Thank you for leaving me some gifts and souvenirs y’all ! Lol
It's LIDAR, not radar. Radar wouldn't do anything, it would just bounce off the jungle canopy. I'm surprised BBC would make such a silly mistake.
Calm down Einstein
Y'all nerds are always offended for some silly mistakes
Chill out
Thank you….BBC seriously?
@@Suntzu235 It's a major news network, not some random idiot that doesn't know how to use punctuation.
Liedar* 😂
So we discovered something we've not seen but you can't show us because you haven't actually seen it so you show us something you think it may have looked like.
Wow thank you BBC.
I now understand the secrets of the universe.
Only 7000 buildings found, Big WOW
Yep and what's even more astonishing is that they were built with bones and arrows 🤣🤣🤣 according to the professionals
My country is a hidden treasure México is beautiful and ancient 🇲🇽
My 5th grade classes loves this! Shoutout Huber, Jung, Simmons!
The Mayans are not dead! they still live! Tell that to your students!
"50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town" made me chuckle 😂 IYKYK
Those were well older than mainstream's "2000 yrs old" It was all inherited by these child sacrificing people that hoped the watchers that taught the original people who built these megaliths would one day come back
@@siyem2051 I agree. I believe Egyptians, myans, aztecs, incas, olmecs even Sumerians and other ancient civilizations found most of these megalithic structures/cities, built by an even more ancient people with different type of technology.
@@marcosetnavrec899I really wonder what civilization built this stuff before the Mayans inherited it. Maybe Plato’s Atlantis was real. If we wanna go even further maybe the Annunaki were real
This is the kind of stories I want to hear about
Watch Reset of Tartaria by Zachary. You will be very surprised why these ancient civilizations are gone. BBC just did it on much of surface with some twist of truth and lie.
We in México already knew about this AND still saying discovered like there was no people here already
See what bugs me about journalism is the lack of in depth research. Sure, i know that this is only one of ten stories on the writers desks. But maybe, just maybe, run a few stories by the experts?
The Maya still exist.
Try "Google."
which they mention
50,000 people used to live there, now it's a ghost town.
0:17 FACTORS SUCH AS COLONIZATION
Lol she didn't want to admit
Those cities were abandoned in 600 years before the Europeans arrived
@ she was talking about the factors that made them go “extinct”. it wasn’t spontaneous, the spanish brought disease and war
@@themechanictangerine people be nomadic, those buildings are like resorts.
@@marcellacantoni8128 they never go extinct, the Mayans still live there
1. Mexico is not in Central America, it is in North America.
2. The Maya did not disappear, there are still a lot of them in the Yucatan Peninsula and Central America.
In 10 000 years what the hell are people going to think when they find iPhones and BBLs attached to our bodies
0:49 looks like one of those houses the survival build from scratch YT channels make 😂
Scientists: so we found some cool old buildings
BBC: cl1MaTe ChaNgE
Totally on brand 😂
Yep, they refuse to let go of that made up science/environment scam. The story could be about kittens playing, and somehow they would manage to throw in clim@te ch@nge. They do that in just about every story. 🤡😵💫🥴
It's a directive, they have to insert it into every story or they lose ESG points.
Found the right-wing American moron.
Amazing news!
I hope they also preserve the natural rainforest surrounding the site, now that the new is out. It add to the beauty and so much of the the rainforest has been cut down.
I prefer listening to someone that knows what they are talking about rather than a kinder garden teacher.
You can't even spell kindergarten.
You're very welcome to listen to someone else, nobody cares. I assume you weren't forced to watch?
@@ryanreverie5242 🤣🤣🤣
Learn to spell correctly before mocking others 😂
Here come the spelling and grammar nazis 😂😂 why do you loosers think spelling and grammar are important on youtube of all things 😭😭 I was gonna say anytime a girl texts you do you call her out and tell her not to text you until she can spell properly. But I doubt you dorks get any 😂
I like how she said, thier ancient relitives lie just beneath their feet. At the end of this video.
Ohhhhhhhh my goddd. she also said they are descendants 😂 y'all are just as bad as liberals
@@DefensisIndusYou're that troll in the comment section.
make The Americas Mayan Again
So a misogynist civilization, that routinely sacrificed (killed) women and children, bought and sold slaves, colonized North and Central American are more noble than European colonizers because, they're Brown?
MAMA?
@@ShutterKnack oh Mama!
Mayan’s faded 300 Years ago? Since when?
It’s not under ground. It’s under the tree canopy.
BBC, British Bullshit Correspondance
My Grandma hit 100 guys🥳
🎉 congrats
I live in the southeast of Mexico, and there are still millions of Mayan persons, still speaking Maya, having their Mayan customs, and very proud of their roots. When they speak Spanish they still keep their accent and is common to mix words from both languages. Just wanted to point out that Mayans as a civilization never ceased to exist, this is just different times.
aliens vs predator dont go inside !!!
i hope they do robocop vs terminator movie i love that game
Aliens vs predators based on humans/ Anunnakis vs the reptilians. Call me crazy but it’s true
Bbc has both.
The studio presenter sounds like she’s clinically depressed and the second woman sounds very uninterested. Once again the BBC proves that it can make even the most interesting stories sound like the hospital telling you a loved one has died in a car crash
She just reads off a teleprompter..has no idea who they were
Pretty sure that's what she's employed to do.
Duh...That's the point. If you have a problem, take it up with the executives
crazy its almost like that's what her job is or something
This dude thinks everyone in every corner of the globe should know everything about Mayan history
No shittt sherlock. She's from this freakin century and probably doesn't give af about them, just doing her damn job.
Does anybody know the location on Google Maps?
The Dibbler is punching the air rn with his little T-Rex arms
Will Hancock be smiling this time?🤔
@@che4568
Hancock smiles a lot. In fact, he's _laughing._ All the way to the bank.
Why?
@@chiznowtch J's hate any history other than their own
Im not sure why you say that because this discovery proves that Hancock is right, there are ancient cities and discoveries still to be made which archaeologists' like Dibble are simply not looking for
‘Disappeared due to war and disease’ 😂 I think you mean colonisation
This must have been a smaller city from where their neighboring larger cities, with the largest pyramids, got their slaves and human sacrifices to sacrifice on top of pyramids. It’s more likely that the people of these smaller cities were the ones who became allies of the Spanish colonizers.
No, cause the mayans disappeared before the arrival of the europeans. The aztecs were colonized not mayans, because they already died
@@andreas.9175 wrong, you're spreading a lie 😂😂
Mayans still live in Mexico and the peninsula in general...🤦♂️ do your homework tv. Btw why would you not interview a Mexican archaelogist?
bbc never leaves their island, why u think they wanted brexit? they love isolation! & they wont be allowed to colonize the area anymore, sooo why leave?!
You mean the Mayans' Mexican descendants that let the entire thing become overgrown and forgot about it?
I would love to see the murals if any like the Bonampak ones. Great discovery
Why is this news years after Grahan Handcock told us all about these structures, especially in the Amazon.
Of course it's news - it was just discovered. It's always pretty cool to hear about these things if you have an interest in them. It wasn't presented as something shocking and phenomenal.
Yeah but he spreads conspiracy theories and nothing like that will ever be found to prove him right !
@@sgoredraw1455stop with the b.s.
@@sgoredraw1455 What proof do archeologists have that makes their claims 100% true when it comes to the time these megalithic structures were built and how they were built? I know damn well people from 3000 years ago didn't make these with hammers and chisels. What makes more sense is that myans like other ancient civilizations found these already built structures (built by an even more ancient civilization) and decided to make them their homes.
Why shouldn't it be?
I remember coming across a long abandoned Leper colony on a jungle river in Suriname. A very small comparison, but I still feel the chills now. Like a plantation, with tall trees grown through everything. Didn't hang around. Scary as could be.
Climate change was a factor? Did the Mayans drive too many cars and SUVs? Did their factories produce too much CO2? Where did their greenhouse gases come from?
Your mom was the factor. She's like a door knob everyone got to turn her.
They all say that, whatever the subject. Its all about brainwashing us all
Maybe your Jeebus did it.
Not war or climate change, it was the conquistadors who destroyed the Mayan Civilizations. These people had no need for wars; they led an agricultural and peaceful existence.
I’m sure it’s “new” to the “outside” world. Locals and natives have been visiting and appreciating these sites for years.
Make the red banner ever MORE BIGGER BBC 😡
** Maya - Mayan is only the language, like English. Commonly misused as an adjective. I just finished teaching a unit on the Maya to my year 3 kids.
@@TeacherG-p6r but what did they call themselves?
Its an oversimplification
@@curiositycloset2359 Well today they definitely call themselves Mayans. We travelled around there extensively a few years ago. We even were invited to a party by a Mayan family. One woman had made a guacamole that contained ground pumpkin seeds. She explained it was a traditional Mayan recipe.
English is also an adjective? 😅
The Mayans didn't "fade into obscurity" around 300 years ago (that would have been the 18th century). The Mayans left their cities for more rural settlements in the mid-tenth century, the the late-classical period. This was over a thousand years ago! But kudos the BBC for reporting on the topic, it's amazing what we're finding in the wilds today.
Nice to know you were alive 1000 years ago.
I can imagine how exciting it must've been for the archaeologists as they discover this!
It makes me think of when i used to play Age of Empires 2 and chose to be Mayans or the Aztecs
Rise of nations too
Indeed
AOE2 DE is an upgraded version that came out recently (touched up the graphics, some new civs) - you should check it out!
@@Viral-dv4sbl I never had that game
@@AM2K2 hey thats great. I'm going to look that up. Such a great game. thanks
The Mayans only died out 300 years ago? I never knew this. I thought it was more like a few thousand. 300 years ago is crazily recent.
There’s literally Mayans still living.. and indigenous people. They never died out.
@ thank you for telling me, history isn’t taught well where I am from
@@nerolmars3701do they even teach about mayans were you live?
@AbelPeña2067 I actually don't think so. I know we touched on Aztecs but I don't even think that was in a history class but in a textiles class.😐
Flint Dibble will be all over this
My mind went immediately to Top Cat, then I remembered who he was.
That commie J wants to hide history.
pull up yer sleeves mr dibble
“Archeologists find a huge city” you’d think after thousands of years all the huge stuff would be found. These archeologists are probably fkn rock stars in their community right now
YT people are are always so excited to tell stories about the the civilization their ancestors helped end.
What does yt mean?
"Due to factors such as war and disease, the Mayans faded into obscurity about 300 years ago".
The English are still in massive denial about the crimes of colonialism, eh?
Spaniards, in this case...
Your jew professor taught you well, sheep.
There is a book that talk about the stories of this civilization, but in that book they are known as Nephites and Lamanites. The book is called The Book Of Mormon.
And also the Jaredites
Yessss that is what I'm talking about
"Tangible" Evidences (probably) of the Book of Mormon is slowly unraveling 😎
Love how the BBC had to get in the words Climate Change 😂
The great Maya cities did collapse due to climate change; although not a global one like today. Deforestation and severe droughts contributed to the fall.
@@intiorozco5063 That's called weather. Not climate alarmism.
I love how you have to make a point to call them out... As if climate change isn't the biggest challenge we have ever had to face (well, half of us are facing it. Half are confusing science with ignorant opinion).
@@adammiller9179 Thank you. We don't have agreement. But we have clarity. I think Islamo-Fascism, illegal immigration, and exorbitant government spending on social entitlements far outweigh and vastly more troublesome than any concern of climate alarmism. BTW< I wouldn't feel compelled to point it out, if the alarmist didn't take every opportunity to brainwash and gaslight.
@@joe18750 Not weather. Deforestation literally changed the climate for the Maya city-states and durably caused droughts. I really don't see another way to put it. It's documented fact, not alarmism.
... and let us not forget to mention the smallpox that the Spanish brought with them in their first encounter 200, or so years earlier.
...or the syphilis the North and South American natives sent the Spanish home with.
Just like Britain in North America right?
@@AbelPeña2067 Indeed - amongst other atrocities, including slave ownership (primarily in the plantation colonies, but still - which opens a whole other can of worms that, ironically, 'those pesky Brits' played a substantive role in ending) - along with the French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and every other nation sending settlers over (both before and after the formal split from any 'British' identity) - many of whom also found themselves in a 'subjugated minority' and subjected to discrimination - yet another can of worms pertaining to the current round of simply casting 'blame' [ostensibly for all of society's ills] and focus on immigration numbers to 'fix'.
All of which is to say, when you look at history, it's so much easier to 'point the finger' and try to cast 'blame' on some demographic, or other, than it is to simply pay attention to see what's really going on around you. When it comes to the things that governments do - regardless of the era, or geography, or 'resource' concerned, the 'powers that be' would rather have people looking at each other for culpability (the 'hidden enemy within'), than to see what they are up to through clear eyes.
This is why the 'political lens' (and having everybody 'assigned' to one) is working so well for Late Stage Capitalism - nothing like historical grievances to whet the stone that sharpens the blades of 'moral high ground' - and yet we fall for it generation after generation (myself included, at times - lol).
All of _that_ said, thanks for the contribution and addition of more context to the progressive subjugation of the Americas by Europe and the, so called, 'Old World' of the 14th to 20th Centuries.
Bro found a huge ancient city before GTA VI
Finallyyy a nice change of news that is worthy ❤
Nightmare for Flint Dibble..!!
Why?
LMAO i was thinking this
OH for goodness sake .. its not by accident thats why they use lider ....its not the first site they have found by lider .... I live close to all these newly found sites ....And its at least 1 1/2 hour drive from the city of Campeche ....
There are very few things more fascinating than this. We still have so much to learn!
R.I.P to all those people in the hidden City back then 😢
How long before they turn it into a tourist attraction or developer playground... i almost wish it was left undiscovered
Up to 50,000 may have lived in this area, at its peak in the 9th century.
Now it’s a ghost town.
Nobody understand my love for ancient history
It’s not an accident. These places have been written about in the past. It’s time we start looking more into these places.
Archeologist: Its an old city!!!
Primitive Survival: .....
Albert Lin needs to do an episode on this. Amazing.
This is an amazing discovery.
Agreed, hopefully it doesn’t get popularized by the “we wuz kangz” movement.
Is it El Dorado?!?!
People are discovering ancient ruins every year in Mexico. It is estimated that Approximately 20% of ruins have been discovered. There are NO mountains in Mexico, and any ruins that have been discovered is under landscape that has grown over the temples/ruins over hundreds/thousands of years.
Nobody else on LSD sees imagery and patterns strongly reminiscent of Mayan art and figures? Like at 1:46