The jungles of Colombia, South America. 南美哥伦比亚的丛林
This is where the legend of El Dorado was born. 这里是黄金国传说的诞生地
Spanish conquistadors, they heard these local tales 西班牙征服者 他们听到了这些当地的故事
of a king near here who was covered in gold dust. 附近有个国王全身都是金粉
And then the story, it just kept growing 然后这个故事就一直在增长
to describe entire cities covered in the stuff, 为了描述整个城市都被这些东西覆盖着
deep in the jungle, high in the mountains. 在丛林深处 在高山上
While the Spanish never found those fabled civilizations, 虽然西班牙人从未发现那些传说中的文明
they also didn't have the technology that we have today. 他们也没有我们今天拥有的技术
My name is Albert Lin, 我叫Albert Lin
and I look at the world in a unique way. 我以一种独特的方式看待世界
I use 21st century technologies to look back into our past. 我用21世纪的科技来回顾我们的过去
Check that out, I can actually fly through the secret ancient world. 你看 我真的可以飞遍这个神秘的古代世界
Lasers that scan deserts, 扫描沙漠的激光
strip away dense jungle canopy, 剥去茂密的丛林树冠
and scour the oceans 冲刷着海洋
to uncover the hidden worlds beneath. 来揭开隐藏的世界
We're wading into uncharted waters. 我们正在涉入未知的领域
Now I have the military helping me find lost cities! 现在我有军队帮助我找到失落的城市!
New discoveries in the most awe-inspiring places on earth... 在地球上最令人敬畏的地方有了新发现
That's where pixels become reality. 这就是像素变成现实的地方
That fill the gaps in our story, 填补了我们故事中的空白
who we are, where we came from, and the wonders we can achieve. 我们是谁 我们从哪里来 我们可以创造奇迹
Here we are in the 13th century. 这是13世纪
Wow, this is carved out of the earth, huh? 哇 这是挖出来的 对吧?
This is the new golden age of exploration. 这是新的探险黄金时代
We know their secrets! 我们知道他们的秘密!
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The mountains ranges are so steep 这些山脉非常陡峭
the whole area is almost entirely cut off from the outside, 整个区域几乎与外界完全隔绝
like a lost world. 就像一个失落的世界
Over the past 50 years, the whole area 在过去的50年里 整个地区
was mostly dominated by local drug lords and the FARC guerrillas. 主要由当地毒枭和FARC游击队控制
But now that archaeologists are beginning to make their way back in, 但现在考古学家们开始返回
they're finding traces of these unbelievable civilizations 他们发现了这些令人难以置信的文明的痕迹
once thought totally lost. 一度以为完全失去了
Wow... 哇……
It's literally a city in the clouds. 它简直就是一座云中的城市
Maybe those Spanish stories weren't just legends, 也许那些西班牙故事不仅仅是传说
because that's what a real Lost City looks like. 因为这才是真正的失落之城
31-0-1-2. 31-0-1-2
That's "Ciudad Perdida," "The Lost City." 那是"帕迪达城" "失落之城"
Ciudad Perdida, the "Lost City," 佩尔迪达城 “失落之城”
is high up in Colombia's most isolated mountain range, 位于哥伦比亚最偏僻的山脉上
the Sierra Nevada. 内华达山脉
Archaeologists have spent decades exploring this dense jungle 考古学家们花了几十年的时间来探索这片茂密的丛林
to find out about the people who lived here over 500 years ago. 来了解500多年前住在这里的人
Digital technology will help them reveal more, and faster. 数字技术将帮助他们揭示得更多、更快
Only the world's toughest archaeologists can handle this terrain. 只有世界上最强悍的考古学家才能驾驭这片土地
Santiago Giraldo has been excavating here for 20 years. 圣地亚哥·吉拉尔多在这里挖掘了20年
It's a beautiful place. 那是个美丽的地方
It's amazing this place is still standing. 这个地方还能屹立不倒真是太神奇了
Who discovered it? 谁发现了吗?
It was guaceros, looters. 那是鳄梨 抢劫者
And then the archaeologists came in, 然后考古学家进来了
took them about a week to get here 他们花了大约一个星期才到这里
and they were led by other looters. 他们是由其他抢劫者带领的
Looters led the way, huh? 抢劫者走在前面 是吧?
Yeah, it's actually pretty incredible 是的 这真的很不可思议
because they got into a shot-gun fight. 因为他们打了一枪
The looters were after the gold that's in the burials. 抢劫者在寻找埋在墓地里的金子
One looter came out with, you know, 一个抢劫者出来了 你知道
more than 80 pieces of gold from one burial, yeah. 一个墓地里有80多块金子 是的
Gunfights for gold. 黄金的枪战
Archaeology gets dangerous when gold is involved, 当涉及到黄金时 考古学就变得危险了
and this place is bursting with it. 这地方到处都是
Who built all this? 谁建造了这一切?
It was a people that we call the Tairona, their predecessors. 这是一个我们称为泰罗那的民族 他们的祖先
It began to be built around 600 AD. 它始建于公元600年左右
It's huge. 这是巨大的
How many people would've lived here? 有多少人会住在这里?
About 2,000 to 3,000 at its peak, 高峰时大约有2000到3000人
and then about 10,000 people living in the upper part of the basin. 大约有1万人生活在盆地的上部
- 10,000? - Yeah. - 10000吗?-是的
All that forest that you see would've been all farmland. 你所看到的森林原本都是农田
Oh man, you can almost feel their energy here, 天哪 你几乎可以感受到它们的能量
you know, like, all these people running around. 你知道 就像 所有这些人跑来跑去
It's taken us over 40 years of work 这花了我们40多年的时间
to clear out and survey the site, 清理和勘测场地
trying to tease out what these people were thinking when they were building it. 试图弄清楚这些人在建造的时候在想什么
- Forty years? - Yup. ——四十年?——是的
The reason why soon becomes clear. 原因很快就弄清楚了
The travel out here is intense. 这里的旅行很紧张
Santiago and I head for Ciudad Antigua, 圣地亚哥和我前往安提瓜城
a recently discovered Tairona site. 最近发现的Tairona遗址
It's only about like 12 kilometers, 7.5 miles or so, 大概只有12千米 7.5英里左右
from Ciudad Perdida where we just came from. 从我们刚来的佩尔迪达城
That's if you took a straight line that is. 如果你画一条直线
Ah! It kills your guts. 啊!它会杀死你的内脏
It's a real "gut banger" this thing. 这是真正的“肠迷”
We just had a helicopter, now we're in a 4 x 4. 我们刚有一架直升机 现在我们在一个4x4的区域
And we've still got to foot it through some of the craziest jungle. 我们还得徒步穿过一些最疯狂的丛林
The Tairona built their homes on the steepest ridges 泰罗那人把房子建在最陡峭的山脊上
of this thick, dense jungle. 这片茂密的丛林
From here, they could see everything around them. 从这里 他们可以看到周围的一切
Safe in the mountains, they remained hidden for centuries. 他们在山里安全藏身了好几个世纪
They're one of the most mysterious people in all of South America. 他们是整个南美洲最神秘的人之一
And finding their ancient cities in this terrain, 在这片土地上找到了他们的古城
it's almost impossible. 这几乎是不可能的
These roots are incredible. 这些根是难以置信的
Yeah, it's a fig tree. 对 是无花果树
This is what I wanted to show you. 这就是我想给你们看的
See that right there? 看到了吗?
- The rocks? - See that? Yeah. ——岩石?——看到了吗?是的
- Is that a wall? - Yeah, it's a wall. -那是墙吗?-对 是堵墙
It's a wall, it's a Tairona wall. 这是一堵墙 这是泰洛娜墙
That's how we find them out here. 我们就是这样找到他们的
You wouldn't even see it. 你甚至看不到它
It honestly looks like a pile of rocks. 它看起来真像一堆石头
No, for the most part, 不 大部分情况下
to the untrained eye that's what they look like. 对于未经训练的人来说 这就是他们的样子
But, yeah, that's a wall. 但是 是的 那是一堵墙
Wow. It's incredible. 哇 这是不可思议的
Yeah. 是的
I mean you barely recognize it. 我是说你几乎认不出来了
Well, you know, we've got like 400 years of growth 你知道 我们已经有400年的增长了
and leaf litter and soil. 落叶层和土壤
How long did it take to find this place 找到这个地方花了多长时间
after Ciudad Perdida was found? 在帕迪达城被发现之后?
It was a good like 14, 15 years, 大概有14 15年
around 1989, 1990. 大约在1989年,1990年
Fifteen years... 十五年……
Lots of walking, lots of bush-whacking. 走了很多路 砍了很多灌木
I think there's a better way to do this. 我认为有更好的方法
We could use aerial LiDAR to do a digital model of the whole place. 我们可以用空中激光雷达做整个地方的数字模型
And then we could remove the trees and see the ground. 然后我们可以移走树木 看到地面
We could find the pathways, the rock piles, the walls. 我们可以找到小路 石桩 墙壁
That would be amazing. 那太棒了
If it does pick up these terraces, 如果它捡起了这些梯田
it would be really, really amazing. 那将是非常非常令人惊奇的
It would be fabulous. 那会非常棒的
Maybe we'll even find some new ones. 也许我们还能找到新的
LiDAR should be able to strip away the trees to expose 激光雷达应该能够剥去树木暴露
the ground beneath them across this whole area. 他们脚下的土地覆盖了整个地区
Including terrain that has yet to be explored. 包括尚未开发的地形
The LiDAR scanner shoots about 400,000 laser pulses every second. 激光雷达扫描器每秒发射约40万激光脉冲
Each pulse creates an accurate distance measurement, 每个脉冲产生一个精确的距离测量
which we can use to build a 3D model. 我们可以用它来建立一个3D模型
However, there's a problem. 然而 有一个问题
The whole jungle here is incredibly thick. 这里的整个丛林都非常茂密
To test my technology, 为了测试我的技术
first we'll scan a small area around Ciudad Perdida. 首先 我们将扫描珀迪达城附近的一个小区域
If that works, we can scan the whole valley. 如果可行 我们可以扫描整个山谷
This has never been tried here before. 这是这里以前从未尝试过的
We're in totally uncharted territory. 我们正处于一个完全未知的领域
We don't know what we'll find. 我们不知道会发现什么
It could be more lost cities or it could be nothing. 可能是更多失落的城市 也可能什么都没有
But what we do know is that this chance is just too good to miss. 但我们知道的是 这个机会太好了 不能错过
Not much is known about the Tairona, 人们对泰罗那知之甚少
but what we do know comes from the Spanish invaders, 但我们知道的是西班牙侵略者
who arrived in the 16th century. 他们在16世纪来到这里
These streams, they run all the way down to the coast of the Caribbean, 这些溪流一路流向加勒比海沿岸
it's about 15 miles or so, as the crow flies. 直线距离大约15英里
That's the same coastline where the Spanish first landed in 1501. 这就是西班牙人1501年首次登陆的海岸线
They were looking for gold and they found it. 他们在寻找金子 并且找到了
There's this Spanish Friar, 有个西班牙修士
and he describes the Tairona in this way: 他这样描述Tairona
"They had feathered ornaments worn on top of huge plaques of polished gold. 他们把羽毛装饰戴在巨大的抛光黄金牌匾上
"There was no Indian, male or female, who would not have sets “没有哪个印第安人 无论男女 不会有套装
"of jewelry containing ear ornaments, "包括耳饰的珠宝
necklaces, nose rings, and crowns, all of them made in gold." 项链、鼻环、王冠 都是金子做的 ”
Those first encounters with the gold-laden Tairona 第一次接触到装满黄金的泰罗那
sparked the myth of El Dorado. 点燃了黄金国的神话
But this myth has its roots in fact. 但这个神话其实有其根源
There is gold in these hills. 这些山上有黄金
You'll see these tiny little flecks. 你会看到这些小斑点
But when the Spanish arrived and they saw that everyone 但是当西班牙人到达的时候 他们看到每个人
was wearing gold ornaments, 戴着金饰
they thought that these mountains bled gold. 他们认为这些山脉流着金子
That's actual gold? 这是实际的黄金?
Little tiny, tiny little flecks. 非常小 非常小的斑点
Yeah, right there. Look at that. 是的,在这里 看看这个
That's gold? 这是黄金?
They're microscopic almost. 他们几乎微观
Wow. 哇
Would the Tairona have used these kinds of pools to find it? 泰罗那人会用这种水池找到它吗?
We don't know how it was mined so to speak, 我们不知道它是如何被埋没的
probably panned and collected tiny bit by tiny bit 可能是一点点地淘洗和收集
until they had enough to make one of the gold ornaments. 直到他们有足够的钱做一个金饰
The Spanish conquistadors, 西班牙征服者,
they were obsessed by the Tairona gold. 他们痴迷于泰罗那黄金
There's not much of it left, looters have seen to that. 剩下的已经不多了 抢劫者已经注意到了
But there is a stash kept hidden away in a vault in Bogota. 但在波哥大的一个地下室里藏着一个藏身处
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Bogota, Colombia. 波哥大,哥伦比亚
I've got behind-the-scenes access to a vault of Tairona gold 我得到了进入泰罗那黄金金库的秘密通道
at the Banco de la Républica Gold Museum. 在共和国银行黄金博物馆
Look at all this. 看看这一切
I'm meeting Dr. Juanita Sáenz-Samper, 我要见Juanita Saenz-Samper博士
an expert in Tairona jewelry. Tairona珠宝专家
This is Tairona gold? 这是Tairona gold吗?
Yes, this is Tairona gold work. 是的 这是泰罗娜的金器
They're so detailed. 他们很详细的
These are a pair of earrings. 这是一对耳环
They were used just like this. 它们就是这样被使用的
How do I look? Do they look good on me? 我看起来怎么样?我穿起来好看吗?
Yes, it looks very nice. 是的 看起来很漂亮
It's pretty big. 这是相当大的
This is so intricate, look at that. 这太复杂了 看这个
Well this is a great pendant. 这是一个很大的吊坠
It might represent a man and a bat, 它可能代表一个人和一只蝙蝠
and a bird as well. 还有一只鸟
Let me show you in the microscope. 让我用显微镜给你看
Here you can see the details. 这里你可以看到细节
That's amazing, the tiny little feet holding on upside down. 太神奇了 小脚倒立着
That's so cool! Wow. 那是太酷了!哇
Yes, and also, these in here, 是的 还有这里的这些
some tiny little birds. 一群小鸟
These details are literally, 这些细节
you know, the thickness of your hair. 你知道的 你头发的厚度
That's what it looks like. 这就是它的样子
Wrapped around in the most incredible weaved patterns. 包裹在最难以置信的编织图案
Unbelievable. 难以置信
Ah, what is that? 啊 那是什么?
This is a necklace. 这是一条项链
- Do you want to? - Can I hold it? -你想去吗?-我能拿着吗?
Wow, wow, it's heavy. 哇 哇 它很重
Yeah. 是的
Look at that. 看看这个
I have my head here, between this piece of jewelry, 我的头在这里 在珠宝之间
and I actually realize that some human, 我意识到有些人
400 or 500 years ago, wore this exact piece, just like this. 400或500年前 就穿着这件衣服 就像这样
Is this pure gold? 这是纯金的吗?
No, it's not pure. 不 它不纯
It's an alloy made out of gold, 它是由黄金制成的合金
copper and silver, these are gilded pieces. 铜和银 都是镀金的
So how thin is the gold layer on the exterior? 那么外面的黄金层有多薄呢?
Well, I can show you in here. 嗯 我可以带你到这里来
This, like a sandy or porous layer in here, 这里是沙质或多孔层
it measures 5.8 microns. 它有5.8微米
Wow, that's incredible, that's incredible. 太不可思议了 太不可思议了
The Tairona metalsmiths melted together gold, 泰罗那的金属工匠把金子熔在一起
copper and silver to make an alloy. 铜和银制成合金
Once set, the piece was burned over a flame and then dipped 一旦固定 就在火焰上燃烧 然后浸
in an acid solution made from a local herb. 在一种由当地草药制成的酸性溶液中
These chemical processes brought the gold compounds to the surface, 这些化学过程把金化合物带到表面
creating a gilded exterior. 打造镀金外观
So basically the Spanish show up, 所以基本上西班牙人出现了
they see all this stuff, they think it's gold 他们看到所有这些东西 他们认为这是金子
but actually it's just got this layer on the very exterior, 但实际上它只是在外面有一层
- Yeah. - The thickness of a spider's web -是的 -蛛网的厚度
- that is actually gold, and that's it. - Yes. -那实际上是黄金 就是这样 ——是的
I guess the Spanish didn't know that at first, right? 我猜西班牙人一开始并不知道 对吧?
No, they thought it was all gold. 不 他们以为都是金子
The Tairona were able to craft complex pieces 泰罗那人能够制作复杂的物品
out of tiny amounts of gold. 从少量的黄金中提取出来
But it was just enough to fuel the Spaniards' fantasies. 但这仅仅是给西班牙人的幻想火上浇油
Back at Ciudad Perdida, it's the moment of truth, 回到珀迪达城 现在是真相揭晓的时刻
the LiDAR test scans are in. 激光雷达测试扫描已经开始
And if it worked, we'll be able to see the world of the Tairona 如果成功了 我们就能看到Tairona的世界了
like never before. 前所未有的
Man... 男人
Oh great, the data's in. 太好了 数据来了
Yeah, check this out. 是的 看看这个
You're gonna like this... 你会喜欢这个的…
Oh wow. Whoa, okay. 哦哇 哇,好吧
I've never seen it without the trees. 我从没见过没有树的地方
Well yeah, unless you cut 'em all down, right. 是啊 除非你把它们都砍倒
Then I can actually change the angle of the sun here. 然后我可以改变太阳的角度
This is wonderful. 这是美妙的
Look at that! 看那!
You can see all the paths. 你可以看到所有的路径
These paths, they follow the terrain 这些路径 它们沿着地形而行
off of this central terrace on the main ridge 在主山脊的中央平台上
and they kind of go out in every direction. 它们向各个方向扩散
A web of pathways. 路径之网
Yeah, you can continue drawing these out 你可以继续画出来
because it's all about connection. 因为这一切都是关于联系的
It's not like anything I've ever seen in any other city. 这和我在其他任何城市看到的都不一样
I mean, there's no walls, there's no boundaries, 我的意思是 这里没有围墙 没有界限
there's no squares. 没有广场
Nothing, it's all open. 没什么 都开着
It almost looks like this neural network. 它看起来就像一个神经网络
Yep. 是的
How long has this place been abandoned for? 这地方被遗弃多久了?
Just about since 1600, so... 大概从1600年开始 所以…
- Four hundred years ago? - Yeah. -四百年前?-是的
Then there's been jungle growing over this 这上面长满了丛林
for 400 years, how is it still standing? 400年来 它怎么还能屹立不倒?
Well, these guys were wonderful engineers, 这些人都是很棒的工程师
they really were. 他们真的是
And good design really stands the test of time. 好的设计是经得起时间考验的
The design, what do you mean? 设计 你是什么意思?
You've got so much rain out here 这里雨下得这么大
that it's just ridiculous. 这太荒谬了
We've got over four meters of rain per year, so... 我们每年的降雨量超过4米 所以…
Four meters? Like 12, 13 feet? 4米?大概12,13英尺?
Yeah. That's exactly right. 是的 这是完全正确的
It just rains cats and dogs. 下着倾盆大雨
How would that not just erode and destroy all of this? 那怎么能不侵蚀和破坏所有这些呢?
A good portion of the engineering, 工程的很大一部分
the design and the architecture is meant to work 设计和架构是要工作的
as a water management system. 作为一个水资源管理系统
You would have the roof, right, and then all that water 你会有屋顶 对吧 然后是水
would have coursed down, down staircases, 就会跑下楼梯
so you've got run-off water moving very rapidly down slope 所以径流的水顺着斜坡迅速流下来
and just make it all dry again very quickly. 然后很快地让它再次变干
The whole thing's designed as a massive gutter system also? 整个设计成一个巨大的排水沟系统?
That's awesome. 太棒了
That's what has preserved this site actually. 这才是保存这个遗址的真正原因
Using the LiDAR data, 利用激光雷达的数据
we've built a 3D model of Ciudad Perdida. 我们已经建立了Ciudad Perdida的3D模型
And look at this, ready? 看看这个 准备好了吗?
Boom. 繁荣
Without the trees, we can see Ciudad Perdida 没有这些树 我们可以看到帕迪达城
as it was 500 years ago. 就像500年前一样
Transported through time, we can move through the city 穿越时间 我们可以穿越城市
following the footsteps of the people that once lived here. 追随曾经住在这里的人们的脚步
Oh, this is amazing. 哦 这太神奇了
You've got like the center part of the town and then all these paths 你可以看到城镇的中心 还有所有这些道路
that lead out to it and connect to the other neighborhoods. 连接到其他社区
Imagine, you've got dogs, you've got kids playing, 想象一下 你有狗 有孩子在玩耍
you've got goldsmiths, weavers, 你有金匠 织工
you've got merchants. 你有商人
We've proved that LiDAR works here. 我们已经证明了激光雷达在这里是有效的
Now, we're going to scan the whole valley. 现在 我们来扫描整个山谷
Who knows what we'll find hidden beneath the jungle canopy. 谁知道我们会在丛林的树冠下发现什么
The test scans of Ciudad Perdida 测试扫描Ciudad Perdida
prove that the LiDAR technology does work here. 证明激光雷达技术在这里有用
Now we're going to scan the valley. 现在我们来扫描山谷
If there are any other Tairona cities hidden under the jungle, we'll find them. 如果还有其他的Tairona城市藏在丛林下面 我们会找到它们的
Okay, so this is the Sierra Nevada range? 这就是内华达山脉?
Yeah, this is the northern portion. 是的 这是北部
You can see it goes from the Caribbean up to snow caps pretty quickly. 你可以看到它从加勒比海迅速上升到雪帽
I've pulled up a satellite map 我找到了一张卫星地图
so Santiago and I can work out where to scan. 所以圣地亚哥和我可以确定在哪里扫描
We'll rotate around so we can see the whole valley here. 我们旋转一下 这样我们就能看到整个山谷了
All right. That's the whole basin. 好吧 这就是整个脸盆
The lower portion, the upper portion. 下半部 上半部
And we've got Ciudad Perdida right there. 这里有帕迪达城
Okay. 好吧
So, it would be kind of good to scan this whole area here. 所以 扫描这整个区域是很好的
What if we start off with this region here maybe... 如果我们从这个区域开始 也许
That would be perfect, that would be perfect. 那太好了 太好了
I mean, a drone can't carry the sensor 我的意思是 无人机不能携带传感器
because it's not, you know, it's too heavy. 因为 你知道 它太重了
Supplies are brought into Ciudad Perdida every month via helicopter, right? 物资每个月都通过直升机运到佩尔迪达城 对吧?
That's right. 这是正确的
Maybe we could piggyback off of the helicopter... 也许我们可以从直升机上背下来…
That would be perfect. 那太好了
Put the sensor... 把传感器……
and we could have it do these really tight paths, 我们可以让它做这些非常紧凑的路径
this kind of grid pattern through this region. 这种网格图案贯穿了这个区域
That would be perfect, that would be perfect. 那太好了 太好了
That would be fantastic. 那太棒了
We mount an aerial LiDAR scanner with three lenses on a helicopter. 我们在一架直升机上安装了一个带有三个镜头的空中激光雷达扫描仪
One lens faces straight down, the other two are at angles. 一个镜头是直直地朝下的 另外两个是成角度的
This maximizes the chance that some of the laser beams 这最大限度地增加了一些激光束的机会
will make it through the canopy to the ground. 会穿过树冠到达地面
The aerial LiDAR team gets to work, 空中激光雷达小组开始工作
scanning and processing billions of data points from the valley. 扫描并处理来自硅谷的数十亿数据点
There's a clue to what the LiDAR scans might find underneath the tree canopy. 激光雷达扫描树冠下可能会发现一些线索
It's at the entrance to Ciudad Perdida. 就在珀迪达城的入口处
What is this? 这是什么?
Well, we call it the Map Stone. 我们称它为地图石
- A map stone? - Yeah. -地图石?-是的
Ah, look at these lines. Are these pathways? 啊 看看这些线条 这些途径吗?
We think so. 我们是这样认为的
Look at these radiating little hubs here. 看看这些辐射的小中心
What are these? 这些是什么?
Yeah. It looks a bit like the pattern that you see 是的 它看起来有点像你看到的模式
inside Ciudad Perdida where you've got central areas 佩尔迪达城有中心区域
and radiating paths that lead in and out of the central area. 和辐射路径 引导进出中心区域
But we don't know exactly what it maps out, 但我们不知道它到底映射了什么
or what it represents. 或者它代表什么
Let's see if we can match anything with the ground scan. 让我们看看能不能找到与地面扫描相匹配的东西
Okay, ready. 好的,准备好了
First, I'll take a picture, 首先 我要拍张照
and then I'm gonna overlay the ground scan. 然后我要覆盖地面扫描
So, this is the rock obviously and this is Ciudad Perdida... 这显然是岩石 这是帕迪达城…
You can see the terraces. 你可以看到梯田
Yeah, you've got the central area, the terraces right here. 是的 这里是中心区域 这里是露台
It doesn't really fit this at all. 它根本不适合这个
Try that at a different scale, 试着换个规模
if you reduce Ciudad Perdida. 如果你减少城市的开销
- You think reduce it? - Yeah. -你觉得减一点?-是的
So, you think it could be like...? Smaller? 所以 你觉得会是…?小吗?
Smaller, smaller. Yeah, there we go. 更小,更小 对 就是这样
Something like this? Around here? 是这样的吗?在这里吗?
Yeah. 是的
You can see that it's sort of at a different scale. 你可以看到这是在不同的规模
A different scale? 不同的规模?
If it's a map, it represents a wider area. 如果它是一张地图 它代表一个更大的区域
It doesn't really fit the town as such. 它不太适合这个城市
If Santiago's right, 如果圣地亚哥是正确的,
there may be more cities to find out there. 那里可能有更多的城市需要去发现
There is a pathway out of Ciudad Perdida. 从珀迪达城出去有一条小路
It's a staircase made out of 1200 stone steps 它是由1200级石阶组成的楼梯
heading towards the sea. 向着大海
It's an intriguing lead to follow up. 这是一个有趣的后续线索
I've come down to the coast 我来到了海边
to meet anthropologist Eduardo Mazuera. 去见人类学家Eduardo Mazuera
This is where the legend of El Dorado began. 这就是黄金国传说的起源
I didn't realize that the Tairona had a life here in the ocean. 我不知道泰洛娜人在海洋里也有生活
I've been up in the mountains, but they were here too? 我上过山 但他们也在这里?
Yeah. Along the seashore, 是的 沿着海边,
the Tairona would have had small villages, 泰罗那有很多小村庄
where they would trade with the people in the higher lands. 在那里他们可以和高地上的人进行贸易
What would they trade? 他们会交易什么?
Fish, brought from the sea, 鱼 从海里捞来的
salt and sea shells from the lowlands, 来自低地的盐和贝壳
and in the highlands, they would have very refined 在高地 他们会非常优雅
textiles, gold ornaments and ceramic. 纺织品 金饰和陶瓷
So, the Spaniards came here greedy for gold, 所以西班牙人来到这里贪婪地淘金
they saw gold moving from the mountains 他们看见金子从山上移下来
down to the coastline and fish moving back and forth, 沿着海岸线 鱼类来来往往
did they ever try to work together? 他们试过一起工作吗?
Did they trade with each other, the Spanish and the Tairona? 他们之间有贸易吗 西班牙人和泰罗那人?
They did, they did trade, 他们做了贸易
but from the first period of contact, 但从第一次接触开始
the Spaniards had this gold fever. 西班牙人有淘金热
So, what happened here? 那么 这里发生了什么?
The Spaniards had guns and cannons, 西班牙人有大炮和大炮
but besides that, they had a sort of biological weapon, 除此之外 他们还有一种生物武器
diseases. 疾病
Typhus, influenza, smallpox... 斑疹伤寒,流感,天花……
Diseases which were new in the Americas and led to a sort of apocalypse. 这些疾病是美洲的新疾病 导致了一场大灾难
So, the diseases they brought over 所以他们带来的疾病
on the backs of their own greed, 由于自己的贪婪
ended up wiping out almost this entire population. 最终几乎消灭了整个种群
Practically. 实际上
The high death tolls were due to disease more than warfare. 高死亡人数是由于疾病而不是战争
The few survivors that weren't infected with disease 少数没有感染疾病的幸存者
and weren't enslaved, fled into the mountains. 没有被奴役 逃进了山里
Even though those Spanish conquistadores 即使那些西班牙征服者
were so horrendous, and so destructive, 太可怕了 破坏力太大了
some must have survived. 有些肯定活了下来
For that, you should meet some indigenous people, 为此 你应该认识一些土著居民
who claim to be the descendants of the Tairona. 他们声称自己是泰罗那的后裔
They still have the same myths of origin and some of their customs. 他们仍然有相同的神话起源和他们的一些习俗
The indigenous population still live deep 土著居民仍然住在很深的地方
within the jungle covered mountains today. 在丛林覆盖的山脉中
I'm going to meet them to find out what they say happened 我要去见他们 看看他们说发生了什么事
to the Tairona and their gold. 去泰罗那和他们的金子
High up in the mountains near Ciudad Perdida are the Kogi. 在靠近Ciudad Perdida的高山上有科吉人
They claim to be descendants of the Tairona. 他们声称自己是泰罗那人的后裔
Santiago introduces me to Jose Maria. 圣地亚哥把我介绍给约瑟·玛利亚
He's a Kogi priest. 他是科吉人牧师
Every culture has an origin story. 每种文化都有一个起源故事
Could you tell me yours? 你能告诉我你的吗?
We all come from the Mother of everything. 我们都来自万物之母
Wool, frogs, everything. 羊毛,青蛙,一切
And us too. 和美国
Do you think all the fathers and mothers 你认为所有的父亲和母亲
of your people go back to the time of the Tairona, 你的族人可以追溯到泰罗那时代
they go back to the Tairona itself? 他们会回到泰罗那吗?
Mm-hmm. 嗯哼
Do you think that they lived in a similar way 你认为他们的生活方式相似吗
to how you live today? 你今天是怎么生活的?
The same way. 同样的方式
The Tairona and us, we do things the same way. Tairona和我们 我们做同样的事情
It seems like for many years, 似乎很多年以来
from the time of the story of El Dorado till now, 从黄金国的故事开始到现在
there's been a lot of people who have come here in search of gold. 有很多人到这里来寻找黄金
They took it out. 他们把它取出来了
Everything was taken. 一切都是
So the water dries up, 所以水干了
the trees dry up, 树木枯干了
the crops dry up. 庄稼都干了
Because people took gold from the mountains? 因为人们从山上取金子?
Mh-mm. Mh-mm
The Kogi believe gold lust 科吉人相信黄金的欲望
has devastated their culture and the culture of their ancestors, 摧毁了他们的文化和他们祖先的文化
the Tairona. 暴政
But there are still traces of Tairona heritage here 但这里仍然有泰罗那遗产的痕迹
that can't be seen at Ciudad Perdida. 这在佩尔迪达城是看不到的
Jose Maria gives me his blessing to preserve it, 何塞·玛利亚给了我保护它的祝福
in the best way I know how. 用我知道的最好的方法
The LiDAR scanner captures data points 激光雷达扫描仪捕捉数据点
which build an accurate model of the Kogi huts. 建立了科吉人小屋的精确模型
Back at Ciudad Perdida, 回到佩尔迪达城
I use my technology to bring the scans of the Kogi huts to life. 我用我的技术让科吉人小屋的扫描图栩栩如生
This is so cool. 这太酷了
It feels like we're just peering back into time, 感觉就像我们在回顾过去
back to the time the last Tairona lived here, 回到最后一个泰洛娜住在这里的时候
about 400 years ago. 大约400年前
It's kind of like making the invisible, visible. 这有点像把不可见的变成可见的
This technology allows us to see the city as the Tairona would have done. 这项技术可以让我们看到泰罗那将会做的城市
Finally, the aerial LiDAR team has finished processing 最后 空中激光雷达团队完成了处理
billions of data points from the scans of the valley. 数以十亿计的数据点来自对山谷的扫描
Now, we can uncover all of the mountains in the Tairona's world. 现在 我们可以揭开Tairona世界的所有山脉
Here it is. 在这儿
LiDAR data's in? 激光雷达数据的?
Yeah, this is the whole scan. 是的 这是整个扫描
Oh my god, okay. 天啊 好吧
I've sprayed it up against the wall, so... 我把它喷到墙上了 所以…
Let me take a look at it. 让我看看
So that's Ciudad Perdida, here? 这就是帕迪达城?
Yeah. This is Ciudad Perdida. 是的 我是帕迪达城
Everything that you see in white, that's flat. 所有白色的 都是平的
That's what we're looking for. 这就是我们要找的
That's the signature of... 那是…的签名
Yeah, 'cause white means flat, 对 因为白色的意思是平坦
flat means humans, and that means terracing, 平坦意味着人类 也意味着梯田
so what we're looking for is white. 所以我们要找的是白色
Oh look, look, you can see right there the path that leads up river... 哦 看 看 你就在那里可以看到一条通往上游的小路……
Can you pull out a bit more? 你能再拔一点吗?
- Okay. - Pull, I want to see more. ——好的 -拉 我想看更多
I want to see more, see if we can find some new areas. 我想看得更多 看看我们能不能找到一些新的地方
Oh, look, this is new, this is absolutely new. 看 这是新的 绝对是新的
Wow! 哇!
Right there. This is new. 在这里 这是新的
This area right here. 这个区域
Right there, right there, that ridge line right there, 在这里 在这里 山脊线在这里
this area right there. 这个区域
See that, it's nice and flat, 看 它很漂亮 很平
highly probable that there is terraces right there... 很有可能那里就有梯田……
This is... this... we've never been there. 这是……这个…我们从未去过那里
So, you're telling me that this area up here 所以 你告诉我这上面的面积
could be an entirely new city or site? 可能是一个全新的城市或地点?
Yeah, it could be a new site, 对 可能是个新地点
could be a new site, could be a new town. 可能是一个新的地点 可能是一个新的城镇
This is this is fantastic data. 这是非常棒的数据
A lost city, in the mountains, 一座失落的城市 在群山之中
that you've never seen before? 你从没见过的?
It could be. 它可能是
But we need to ground truth 'em. 但我们得封锁真相
We got to put boots on the ground, 我们得派人到地面上去
and head out there and see for ourselves 然后我们自己去看看
whether there's terracing and walls and just man-made structures. 无论是梯田、墙壁还是人造建筑
That's where pixels become reality. 这就是像素变成现实的地方
Somewhere out there, there's a lost city waiting to be found. 在某处 有一个失落的城市等待被发现
This is gonna to be tough. 这将会很艰难
We'll be bushwhacking through some of the world's roughest terrain. 我们将穿越一些世界上最崎岖的地形
Santiago and I head off with the camera crew. 圣地亚哥和我和摄制组一起出发了
We've got the Colombian military with us, 我们有哥伦比亚军队的支持
because bandits still roam this jungle 因为这片丛林里仍然有强盗出没
and we can't take any chances. 我们不能冒任何风险
Before we even can start the climb, 在我们开始攀登之前
there's a long trek on the old Tairona path. 老泰洛纳小路上有一段漫长的跋涉
Then it's hours of bushwhacking up the ridge 然后是数小时的丛林攀爬山脊
we spotted on the LiDAR scans. 我们在激光雷达扫描上发现的
Our goal is to get to the top of the ridge 我们的目标是到达山脊的顶端
where the LiDAR showed large flat areas, 激光雷达显示了大面积的平坦区域
that we hope are the signs of a Tairona city. 我们希望这是泰罗那城的标志
It starts so well. 它开始的很好
Wow. It's just so beautiful... 哇 太美了……
But it's not long before the real challenge begins. 但在真正的挑战开始之前不久
How many machetes do we have, among the crew? 船员中有多少把弯刀?
- Three, four. - Four machetes. ,三,四 ——四大砍刀
- We'll just take turns. - Okay. -我们轮流吧 ——好的
We're going to be going up. 我们要往上走
Trying to find a trail right by the side. 试图在旁边找到一条路
Well, let me pull out the data. 我把数据拿出来
Okay. Fire it up. 好吧 火起来
- Okay... - Okay, pull it down. -好吧…-好的 把它拉下来
So we are... We are right here. 所以我们……我们就在这里
- Right here. Right there. - This one? ——在这里 在这里 ——这一个?
I'm at 3366 altitude. 我的高度是3366度
3366 feet. 3366英尺
Okay, we've got about 700 feet to go up. 好的 我们还有700英尺的高度
So that's the ridge line up right there, 山脊线在这里
- somewhere hidden in the green. - Yeah, it's going up like this. -藏在绿色的某个地方 -是的 就像这样上升
And if all goes well, we'll be heading up this ridge line, 如果一切顺利 我们将沿着山脊线前进
right beside it up, up, up towards this plateau up here. 就在它旁边 一直往上 一直往上 一直到这个高原
We're literally following a map made by lasers in the sky 我们实际上是在跟随天空中的激光绘制的地图
through the thickest jungle I've ever seen 穿过我所见过的最茂密的丛林
to look for new lost cities. 寻找新的失落的城市
Good fun. Good fun. 很有趣的 很有趣的
This is just the beginning. 这仅仅是个开始
Ahead of us is a 700-foot vertical climb 在我们前面是700英尺的垂直爬升
on whatever pathway we can cut out of the harsh jungle. 无论我们走哪条路 都能走出这险恶的丛林
We leave the old Tairona path 我们离开了泰洛娜的老路
and start to fight our way up the mountain. 然后开始向山上进发
It looks like the trajectory kinda follows this ridge up that way. 看起来轨迹是沿着山脊向上的
Yeah, it should. The soil is pretty loose. 是的,它应该 土壤很松
Oh man. 天啊！
This is why jungle archeology is so hard. 这就是丛林考古如此困难的原因
Deadly snakes are in this jungle. 丛林里有致命的蛇
If anyone is bitten, they'll die before we can get them out. 如果有人被咬了 在我们救他们出来之前他们就死了
This climb is harder than we could ever have imagined. 这次攀登比我们想象的要难
Sorry. Oh, oh, oh! 对不起 哦,哦,哦!
You all right? 你对吧?
After a brutal climb, we finally have a breakthrough. 经过艰苦的攀登 我们终于有了突破
There we go. 好了
We got lots of pottery up here. 我们这里有很多陶器
- Pottery? - Yep. ——陶器吗?——是的
You serious? 你认真的吗?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Look at that. 是的,是的,是的 是的 看看这个
Bits and pieces of pottery right there. 陶器的碎片就在那里
Oh yeah. Look at that. 噢,是的 看看这个
Can you get the trowel out please? 你能把铲子拿出来吗?
Here we go. 我们开始吧
Ancient pottery. 古代陶器
See this one right there? 看到这个了吗?
Where there's pottery... 那里有陶器……
There's human beings! 人类!
This is Tairona pottery. 这是Tairona陶器
This is so cool. 这太酷了
Guys, c'mon up. We've got another one up here! 伙计们,来吧 上面还有一个!
You've got another one? 你还有吗?
Yeah, we've got another one up here. 是的 这里还有一个
Another one. 另一个
It hasn't been looted. 它并没有被洗劫
There's no looter pits. 没有抢掠坑
No looter pits means that this is an untouched site. 没有抢掠坑意味着这是一个未被触及的地点
What is it? 它是什么?
- Lip. - A pot lip? ——嘴唇 -壶嘴?
Yup. Watch out. Watch out. 是的 小心 小心
Wow, Look at this. 哇 看这个
It's on a slope so it's coming from uphill. 它在一个斜坡上 所以它来自上坡
Look at that right there, 看这里
right down the side. 就在这一边
Proof of life for a lost civilization, 一个失落的文明有生命的证据
consumed by the jungle. 被丛林吞噬
We follow the trail of pottery uphill. 我们沿着陶器的踪迹上山
It's like everywhere you grab, 就像你抓的每一个地方
something's trying to poke you or sting you. 有东西要戳你或刺你
It's like jungle exploration meets mountain climbing. 就像丛林探险和爬山一样
Hard work. 艰苦的工作
Terraza, terraza. We've got a terrace up here. Terraza Terraza 我们这儿有个露台
C'mon. 来吧
- You got a terrace? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. -你有露台吗?-是 是 是
We found a terrace. 我们找到了一个平台
What! Already. 什么!了
Yeah. You can see the wall right here... 是的 你可以看到墙就在这里…
can clear that a bit. 可以清楚一点
See right there? 看到这里吗?
Let me see. 让我看看
Yeah there it is. See wall, wall, right here. 是的 就是这样 看到墙 墙 就在这里
Let me see. 让我看看
See the big blocks of stone right here. 看这里的大石块
Mm-hmm. 嗯哼
You can hear the clink of stone, stone, 你可以听到石头的叮当声 石头
stone right here. 石头在这里
More stone right here. 这里有更多的石头
Stone. 石头
So, you've never seen this before? 你以前没见过这个?
No, we've never seen this before. 不 我们以前从未见过
We've found 3, 4, 5 terraces? 我们找到了3,4,5个露台?
- Yeah! - All right! ——是的!——好吧!
These terraces are a sign that the Tairona were once here. 这些梯田是Tairona曾经在这里的标志
But the site we spotted on the LiDAR scan is still far above us. 但我们在激光雷达扫描中发现的地点仍然在我们上方很远的地方
We're not even halfway there. 我们甚至还没走到一半
Let's go! 我们走吧!
The mountain's getting steeper 山越来越陡了
and we're climbing at a 52-degree incline. 我们正以52度的坡度往上爬
The humidity is reaching 100. 湿度达到了100度
You okay? 你没事吧?
You all right? 你对吧?
This climb is unrelenting, 这次攀登是不屈不挠的
we're all struggling. 我们都在苦苦挣扎
It's merciless and unforgiving. 它是无情的 不可饶恕的
Come on, up we go, up we go... 来吧 我们上去 我们上去……
You see anything? 你看到什么吗?
Not yet. 还没有
We're at 3893 feet of altitude. 我们现在的高度是3893英尺
We're aiming for what? 我们的目标是什么?
Yeah just over 4,000. We gotta be getting close. 是的 刚超过4000个 我们离得更近了
Okay, come on, let's go. 好了 来吧 我们走
If there's a city here, 如果这里有一座城市
then it will have been built on a huge, artificially flat space, 然后它将建在一个巨大的人工平坦的空间上
the white areas we saw on the LiDAR scans. 我们在激光雷达扫描上看到的白色区域
You see anything? 你看到什么吗?
Oh yeah. It is flattening out. 噢,是的 它正在变平
Watch out. 小心
We're on a terrace? 我们在露台上?
Yeah. It's, we've got a lot of forest over it but, yeah. 是的 那里有很多森林
That's all nice and flat. 很好 很平
The flat area looks like it could be a Tairona terrace. 平坦的区域看起来像是一个Tairona平台
But to be sure, we need evidence, 但可以肯定的是 我们需要证据
pottery, cut stones, 陶器、切割石头,
anything to show the Tairona actually lived here. 只要能证明泰罗那人真的住在这里就行
The hunt's on. 亨特
We spread out, checking every inch of ground. 我们散开 检查每一寸土地
Even the army joins in. 甚至军队也加入了
Maybe around the edges? 也许在边缘?
Yeah, probably around the edges. 是的 可能在边缘
I mean, we need to spread out and see if we can find some walls. 我是说 我们得分散一下 看看能不能找到一些墙
Watch out, yeah, watch out for snakes. 小心 对 小心蛇
Without cold, hard proof that the Tairona were here, 没有冰冷有力的证据证明泰罗那人在这里
we'll have done all this for nothing. 我们所做的一切都是徒劳的
I mean, it makes sense, right, it's flat. 我的意思是 这说得通 它是平的
But we haven't seen any evidence yet. 但我们还没有看到任何证据
We're right at the top of the ridge now. 我们现在就在山脊的顶端
You know, if it's consistent with everything else around here, 你知道 如果它和周围的一切一致的话
this would have been where a Tairona city would have stood. 这就是泰罗那城的所在地
But we've got to find some evidence, 但我们得找到一些证据
beyond just the topography. 不仅仅是地形
I see a rock right here. 我看到这里有块石头
This is a piece of cut rock, just like at Ciudad Perdida. 这是一块切割过的岩石 就像佩尔迪达城一样
Following it, let's see if we can see it on the other side of this tree. 跟着它走 看看我们能不能在树的另一边看到它
Do you see it over there? 你看到它在那边吗?
Yeah, it continues over here. 是的 它在这里继续
Good. Yeah, yeah. 好 是的,是的
This? 这个吗?
We got that one right there. Yeah. 我们得到了这个 是的
Another piece of cut rock. 另一块切割过的岩石
You think this is the edge of a terrace? 你认为这是露台的边缘吗?
Yeah, I mean, the line goes that way, 是的 我的意思是 那条线是这样的
the line goes that way. 这条线是这样的
So that's why we've got that flat area right inside. 这就是为什么里面有一个平坦的区域
This is what we're looking for. 这就是我们要找的
The edges of it. 它的边缘
There's stone after stone after stone. 这里有一块又一块石头
Yeah, we've got another one over here. 是的 这里还有一个
You've got another one? 你还有吗?
Yeah, we got another rock over here, yeah. 对 我们这里还有一块石头
- A bit of the wall has tumbled down... - I think we've found it. -有一段墙塌了…-我想我们找到了
I've got pottery! 我有陶器!
- What? - Yeah. ——什么?-是的
- You serious? - Got pottery, yeah. 你认真的吗?-有陶器 是的
Yeah. Definitely. 是的 肯定
Let me see. 让我看看
It's a really small piece. 这是一个非常小的部分
Can you get some water and clean it up but, yeah. 你能拿点水把它清理干净吗?
It's pottery for sure. 肯定是陶器
Wow, look at that. 哇 看那个
The tiniest fragment, but it's enough. 最小的碎片 但已经足够了
This is going to be fun to excavate. 挖掘这个会很有趣
Pottery for sure. 陶器
This was once somebody's home! 这里曾经是某人的家!
This city would have been part of the great Tairona civilization 这座城市本应是伟大的泰罗那文明的一部分
from mountaintops to the sea. 从山顶到大海
The LiDAR scans uncovered this extraordinary place, 激光雷达扫描发现了这个特别的地方
reclaimed by nature and hidden under the jungle 被大自然收回 藏在丛林里
for hundreds of years. 几百年了
And this is just the beginning. 而这仅仅是个开始
With this technology, we can discover dozens of new cities 有了这项技术 我们可以发现几十个新城市
and possibly the whole Tairona civilization. 可能还有整个泰罗那文明
I think we can call that a success. 我想我们可以称之为成功
Yeah. A pretty good day. 是的 不错的一天
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