Tikal’s Architecture Water Management System I SLICE HISTORY
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- Thanks to new technologies, discover the ancient Maya city of Tikal, fully remodelled using 3D computer graphics. This amazing feat was possible thanks to recent on-site filming of the ruins together with tremendous postproduction work to create the 3D version of the ancient city and combine it with the filmed images. This successful experience brings the city out of the mists of a bygone era, revealing it in its full splendour.
Hidden away in the jungle of Guatemala, Tikal saw the light of day in the 8th century BC. Inhabited for over a thousand years, the ancient city would encompass up to 12,000 structures and 2 million inhabitants. It reveals its extraordinary temple-pyramids, made using sheer human strength. The North Acropolis, the Mundo Perdido astronomical observatory, the magnificent Temple of the Great Jaguar, and Temple IV, one of the tallest in all Mesoamerica, regain their colours of yesteryear and provide us with a unique testimonial of Maya art and ingenuity.
Documentary: Megapolis, the Ancient World Revealed, EP3: Tikal
Directed by: Fabrice Hourlier
Production: Indigènes Productions
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I live in Guatemala, married to a Mayan woman. We collect nearly all our water from our buildings, only store it in sealed tanks. One separate tank holds 3 years of drinking water at 5 liters per day. We also heat the water with solar water heaters.
That may have been the main difference with Maya hydraulic engineering systems and now, while it's now common practice to cover the reservoirs or tanks to store water maya reservoirs were open, letting an important amount of water to evaporate. Side note: when referring to most maya subjects it's ideal to use "Maya", "mayan" belongs to the categorization of Mayan languages like Ch'ol, Yucatec, Tzeltal, etc.
amazing and inspiring
Impressive video, SLICE History. Looking forward to seeing more content from you. I smashed the thumbs up button on your upload. Keep up the fantastic work. The insights on the Mayan hydraulic engineering techniques were fascinating! How do you think these ancient methods could be applied to modern water management challenges in urban areas?
"Ingeniosity" isn't a word. You're mean "ingenuity".
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It is
Haha yeah I think they may have been Americanisationalising it a bit there!
AI is not national ! You beat me to the punch ... ain't no such word ... (÷
I fully agree with your first statement but I am NOT mean and please stop calling me "Ingenuity".I look nothing like a Mars rover. ;-)
00:34 The ingenuity of the Mayans is astounding! Creating massive reservoirs for water management in a region with no big rivers is a true feat of engineering. Imagine their precision and planning! How did they make it all work seamlessly? 🤯
Interesting render, was it made specifically for this video?
What did they drink while building all that?
Water from citrus fruit carried in on foot, Same with the Great Walls in china. Does not evaporate, lasts for months during travel and contains seeds to plant trees locally. Citrus are relatively short lived so that's why we don't see those trees today. Mandarins are a fruit and also a race of people.
Citrus comes from a family of plants that is indigenous to Northern India or Myanmar, it never reached the Americas before contact, however, people do not need fruits to store water during the day, gourds made from the shells of said crop are still used today by rural townspeople because of their inherent properties at storing water, and last thing, race isn't an appropriate concept to classify different human groups, ethnicity explains human groups differences better 👍
Why the annoying music?
*ingenuity
No lead paint l hope.
No lead but some people painted with a highly toxic mineral, cinnabar, it lead to the intense accumulation of Mercury in some cities and definitely to the poisoning of many people in antiquity.
The history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas is much, much older than a few thousand years. The Hopi people tell that they arrived in the America’s about 30,000 years ago when the continent that they were living on, Lemuria, sank under water. They claim to be the ancestors of the Maya. We judge the Maya, Aztecs, Inca’s and others on the traces that we find. But when we dig our way from the present to the past, we must know that the Earth is suffering from a cycle of seven recurring natural disasters. That is told in the Popol Vuh. These disasters create a cycle of civilizations. There are four primitive civilizations, sometimes mentioned a sun or world era. The next civilization lives in the fifth sun. This becomes eventually a high developed civilization that disappeared 20,000 years ago due to the next recurring, thus predictable but inescapable disaster that is caused by the ninth planet in our solar system. That planet orbits our sun in an eccentric orbit hence it is only a short period close to our sun and its planets s it crosses the ecliptic planet at a very high speed. This high developed civilizations has built sturdy monuments all over the world and they must have buried knowledge about themselves and the world history deep in the ground. High in the mountains they have built shelters or surviving places for a selected number of people. Like Machu Picchu in Peru. The Aztec sun stone is a warning for this event that is known as Quetzalcoatl, Tonatiuh, Xiuhcoatl or Nibiru in other regions. Much more details about this cycle of natural disasters and many images can be found in an e-book. "Planet 9 = Nibiru". Search: invisible nibiru 9
Popol Vuh, not very many people have read a translation of it's few remaining manuscripts. Done in pictograms because there is no written Mayan language so somewhat open to interpretation. I have seen it and let me tell you it opened my eyes.
This is just like regurgitating all the superficial knowledge you have about ancient native american societies and combining it with conspiracy theories, please refrain from writing crap any longer.
@@antonioforestgardens697There ARE mayan written languages like Chollan or Yucatec, they aren't used too much now compared to the classic period (i.e: golden age of city states like Tikal), plus it fell into disuse in the colonial period, but there is script still used today. The Popol Vuh is a transcription made from a codex that hasn't reached our days.
@@Aztekaspia This is ancient knowledge that is available for everyone who is searching for it but that is forgotten, neglected or denied by all scientists.