Belize's Ancient Maya Sacrificial Cave: Rare Footage | One Strange Rock
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- The rarely photographed Actun Tunichil Muknal cave was used as a sacred sacrificial site for the ancient Maya. The cave contains dozens of skeletons including the calcified remains of an eighteen-year-old woman known as, “The Crystal Maiden.” National Geographic was granted special access to explore this Maya archaeological site in this deleted scene from National Geographic's One Strange Rock.
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Belize's Ancient Maya Sacrificial Cave: Rare Footage | One Strange Rock
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Incredible abandoned ancient cities cover the region, but this hidden cave has a special allure. To learn more about the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, please read on: on.natgeo.com/2HfyOeh
I visited ATM this past week. It was amazing! Belize will forever be in my heart! I already miss it and almost feel like I’m “homesick”
Which episode is this featured on? I've been to ATM twice and it's unbelievable!
Didn't know there are thousands of these sites. If I'm not mistaken, there's a theory that says the Mayans were wiped out from a major drought. Nonetheless, I hope one day I'll be able to visit one of these historical sites. Thanks National Geographic for sharing.
Azliana Lyana
Same here I to wish to visit these many beautiful sites, an adventure that would be. By the way Azliana that's a beautiful name.
The Maya were not "wiped out". They just stopped living in and building the large stone cities. Their society collapsed, possibly partially due to drought, but probably a lot of contributing factors such as climate change, overpopulation, soil depletion, etc., but they did not disappear. Millions of Maya inhabited the area when the Spanish arrived, and millions still do today. Also there was no "Mayan Empire", there were groups of related peoples who spoke similar languages. They created "city states" that warred with each other, made alliances and had vassal states. But there was never a large empire to be "subdivided". Also no "civil war", it was never one organized society or empire to have a civil war. Think more in the lines of the ancient Greeks, Athens against Sparta, no one city ever really gaining hegemony over all the others. Also, Central America (where the Maya were) and South America (where they were not) are not the same place. And another thing, Pakal had been dead for something like 800 years when the Spanish arrived.
Herman Cortez, a Spaniard came through with his army and massacred the mayans for 4 years
Been there. Facinating and majestic. NatGeo❤️
Thank u for adding a narrator!
Mayan Ambassadors often visited and traded with early inhabitants of both lower and upper Great Lakes. Copper, flint, iron ore, and unlimited salt were in high demand. Mayan trading relics recently discovered in the Maumee (Miami of the Lake) River valley of NW Ohio clearly verify their presence. Easily accessible: Gulf of Mexico to Mississippi to Ohio to Lower Miami’s or Wabash to Auglaize to “Miami of the Lake”. Archaic People followed most of this trail as did Adena whose navigational mounds can still be found.
Our own disappearance may just as well happen from lack of water which affects food production
Thank You
Thanks Nat Geo ...i hope i will be able to visit such great sites one day..
Alhomairaa Albasha go to Belize. There are lots of them there. I'd recommend one on the west of the country.
In Sha Allah... after i graduate from the Uni..and get good job..Thanks gip1279
I live in Belize
I’ve been to the one in Oaxaca city Mexico. It’s a small one but was very nice to see. I’ve heard the ones in Belize and Mexico City are way bigger.
Good question.
It's related to South Asia Sites. I think the civilization were spread from SouthEast Asia (Sunda Land) to the land with similiarity climates especially area which crossed by an equator...
Wow!!
I'm coming Maya..😍😍
navin xy looo
dude, this is cool
When are we gonna go !!!???!!
Interesting Maya
Cool
Wow
At what point will the US go down? It's happening.
JamesThomas it will take a long long time. War needs to break out first then after multiple decades of fighting. That could really go either way though. If their is a winner they will control the world. That’s a BIG if though. After all everyone would probably die from real war between countries with over 2000 nuclear bombs. We will see!
I've been there when I was a teenager
Omg where did the Maya go
Now..!
Likely famine especially drought, or pandemic spread them thin to disperse to more plentiful areas or die out, is my theory. These caves have bones and specifically, hints at diet by their enamel, that indicate that the Mayan empire abducted these people including children, from neighboring areas to sacrifice so that may have also created a lot of enemies for them who sought their demise in creative ways and didn't help them survive.
I had a staring contest with my dog today.
I was born in the back of a sedan
Conke better than "created" in the back of sedan
Conke I was born on Greyhound
So let's build these amazing advanced structures in cities but still be primitive and sacrifice each other doesn't sound right
The structures weren't that amazing. Humans have been building such structures for tens of thousands of years
the europeans burned women, in public display, because they were "witches" and so did the people of the united states. let's not pretend people aren't being executed/sacrificed in so called modern times.
i think this very question will bring doom upon us
Crystal maiden site looks like a horrible crime scene.
it will happen to us soon.. the end is near
Not at all. Our global civilization is growing by every possible measurable statistic
We are still on the rise. But i feel within this generation or the next it will turn... But then again everyone in history of humanity believed this about their own generation or civilization
Maya-Virtual world
Omg I am one of the first ones to be here don’t let me in the bottom of the comments!(please)
Small box’s nah ?
predator movies lol
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Arslan Alptekin sounds pretty thin.. like every one elses interests
Mayans didn't last very long. "peak" mayan civilization occurred *JUST* before Europeans discovered America
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This is a misinterpretation.
The sacrifice was of the cranial mind, the 5 senses. The pyramids represent the higher consciousness, meeting the spirit in the air.
These pyramids are build in perfect geometry.
The geometry of your body and the universe.
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the equivalent of new york?! new york didn't even exist and how can the ANCIENT Maya have been more advanced than the Aztecs, who came 100's of years after?!
"in many ways"?! either you are more advanced or you're not. you want to fill in the blanks with supposition while neglecting the actual course of history and it's peeks. romans could of been light years ahead of euro's but how does that justify the claim of "mayan" culture being more advanced than the aztecs? explain that away, please.
you can compare the chick to the rooster but you can't compare a rooster to a chick. it only makes sense, while demonstrating the most minimal of respect, not to trivialise the ancient with a rat infested modern day metropolis.
Whos archaeology in here? Ahahahah
What proof can i find to say that these great structures were for human sacrifice?
The drawings inside the temples of human sacrifice.
"Advanced Civilization"..."human sacrifice..." uh...
They weren't very advanced. Doubt if they made it out of the "ancient era" into the "classical era"
you do realise our "modern" society execute prisoners right? uh?!
creepin93 The moment you misspelled "REALIZE" your comment became invalid
Advanced for its time....
DJTommy812 You do realise that it can be spelt both ways?
Our civilization is in decline now
Where did they go? They were erased from the planet by europe. Where is the mistery here? Sad to see this kind of information on such a channel.
right
Um...
The Maya were not "erased". They just stopped living in and building the large stone cities. Their society collapsed, possibly partially due to drought, but probably a lot of contributing factors such as climate change, overpopulation, soil depletion, etc., well before the Europeans arrived. Millions of Maya inhabited the area when the Spanish arrived, and millions still do today. The only mystery is why their society collapsed, and archaeologists are diligently working on that question.