deep within the jungle which came out a civilization discovered
little rainforest cryptic remains on the lost civilization
one expanded continent for more than a thousand years
they definitely had patch into the supernatural namely
mention Meyer their rulers field ban cities with sky-high
pyramids ornate palaces and lavish
positives
they were masters their environment they were very resourceful
figuring out how to harness the energy creating amazingly sophisticated work so
hard and engineering
and sustaining a civilization for 1500 here
then after generations and prosperity and innovation
the ancient civilization collapse
bustling cities into ghost towns to be
reklame by mother nature
centuries later answers to the mystery surrounding
these majestic people and the godlike key whom
them tell a story of conquest ingenuity
and disaster
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the my are becoming desperate food and clean water are dwindling
thousands of people are starving
nutrition and disease are ravaging the population my
no longer trust their divine to appease
god's political turmoil plagues the kingdom's
and one by one the great city-states are being abandoned
the ancient Maya civilization is crumbling
city after city area after area
begins to fail cities are abandoned Kings disappear
on and what had been classic meyer culture
really comes to an end what happened to this great people
even today scholars are still mystified we know
that people began to disappear the questioners
how did that happen
the answer may lie in complex hieroglyphics known as the Maya code
I'm Jeremy he said complex way on
playin all the information
that my yeah people
thing
Laura express an easy only example in the Americas
on the complete complex system right today these cryptic symbols reveal a
historia
brutal warfare larger-than-life rulers
and the rise and fall 11 enigmatic people
hi i'm peter weller time standing on top this beautiful temple deep in the rain
forced southern Mexico to the border
Guatemala and this is the heart and the civilization up the agent Meyer
four years archaeologists believe that the agent Meyer were peacefully
separated in the 40 or so
independent city-states each with their own dynasty a
Kings for what we could tell there seem to be trade communication but they
didn't seem to be
any particular Imperial aggression motivated by
thirst for lander power outside the Kings on territory
by the last half century these theories are starting apply the base of a
different story because higher above like this one
the remnants of the ancient maya is a freelance writing system are paying a
whole new picture
touchy-feely nineteen sixties and New Age ideas about gentle and loving people
are being bad
replaced by a much more complex reality our city state
butting heads in bloody clashes and now we have evidence the brutal battles and
human sacrifice were fundamental components of life
among the age in Meijer
world
but the evolution of the Maya civilization into this complex network a
city-state
didn't happen overnight
the Maya came into existence probably a couple of thousand years before Christ
my 500 BCE population was on the rise
and small communities were turning into the first major minus sites
located throughout Central America prolly organized kingdoms were ruling
the region by 250
eighty with my Hebrew letters at the helm
they hand powerful rulers they were in competition with each other
and sometimes as competition lead to more for the minor
it was war led by Kings in the name of the gods
Maya canes were people like us
but for the Miami definitely had attribute to the supernatural
the price of devotion had brutal and sometimes
deadly consequences
people only the blind at to the car it wasn't that they didn't regard for human
life for human
blood highly quite the contrary human blood
and human life was the most precious the most sacred thing that could be offered
to the gods
in order to repay the blood debt that was incurred
act creation
bloodletting and human sacrifice dominated the Kings strategic thinking
they picked our lives and intact neighbors all with an eye on appeasing
their deities
am staying autonomous on like Rome in the case for the my we're not dealing
with one
Empire instead we're dealing with a series of rival kingdoms
by the 3rd century AD Maya civilization was flourishing
no one city ever succeeded in dominating all the others
but one seat of power was on the rise its name
was ti como
to call is 10 the few cities that goes
strong enough pre classic period before the time Christ
and then it just continues pretty much unabated all the way until the end of
the classic period
this is a city that never really lost it
but in the sixth century unrivaled power named
column threatened key Carl success
the Maya had these two great then asked the capital's
color more antique all those two cities essentially locked horns
it's really color mall that seems to engage in this action
which day engineering alliances all the way around he call
essentially boxing and their animee they would be up to an ambitious
and visionary leader to build a center of military power
one that would take on color called his name was
team concall we knew the name
would construct one of the most iconic structures Obermeyer
up pyramid that would stand the test of time
but temple up the giant Jaguar the most valuable one
was one that took a lot of effort so a big temple pyramid is an indication no
your power your strength your prestige
it away drawing people into your city because it shows what an awesome
powerful ruling you I'm
building in some I tropical environments with rudimentary materials was a unique
challenge
especially when the goal was to build vertically using stone age technology
youngsters the technology the we
associate with big stone constructions were unknown to the minor
they did not have be suburban they didn't have
metal tools
what a minor did have was a virtually unlimited supply and valuable limestone
and a great deal of manpower
your labor was one of the things that you were required to give to the keying
on an annual basis
blocks of limestone were quarried
and then pushed polled or carried by sheer force to the construction site
to you something that we call but amplified
and this is a rope that would pass around the forehead
in that they could carry literally at times
hundreds of pounds have debris level by level the pyramid was built skyward
wooden scaffolding supported the labors and the structure as it expanded
skilled Mason shape the limestone with stone
tools and wooden mallets
know the interior was filled with unrefined
rubble the exterior was deceivingly manicured
covered in a strong Mordor known as my a stucco
hand-painted raid even though they knew
the real economic new metal they elected not to make back
used to be that these things and I think in part it was
because in their world view something was much more valuable
have lot of human labor women to read had nearly 150 feet
the Tampa love the giant Jaguar emerged
facing west toward the Setting Sun
the ancient skyscraper would command the attention a ball who set foot
UT College Grand Plaza as a symbol of power
and redemptions
really keen concall wheels engineering marvel was just the beginning
in 736 we'll have defeated his ultimate rival
kala Kuhlmann them p.m. 07:43 a.m. 07:44 he attacked
anniversary
to critical collar cool allies that surrounded T com
el Peru to the west and Iran home to the east
finally the suffocating new state had one strangled to calm
was broken
in celebration of this E bills as a whole series of lovelorn major
expansions to the palace
a new parents and money look at the car today
in many cases we're looking at the fruits of that success
he may have even launched the construction up the collars to take our
structures
temples for
made of 250,000 cubic yards have stone
the massive pyramid stretch more than 210 feet
for twenty two stories high nearly as tall as the towers and the Brooklyn
Bridge
he jotted far above the dense rainforest canopy
with a 180 degree view of the city
distance other Myers cities were also ambitiously building toward the sky
but at this moment with Kenya Kenyan Khan Khalil
at the helm the car was the unchallenged powerhouse
a Maya civilization
multi car was not home
out of sight about 250 miles to the west
another dynasty is forging the construction have a great Acropolis
there in the seventh century are keenly division
emerge he would turn one of the wettest cities in the world
into america %uh new world
architecture
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the view from the top of Temple 40 car was the backdrop for the massage the
temples in the movie star wars:
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a city by the name upcoming K is on the
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it launches a last-ditch defense against regional powerhouse comical
and then case forces are overwhelmed and the Kenya skilled
with no mail heir to the throne because my a Kings were thought to be divine
Lord
their lineage is key to survival the end of a dynasty usually spelled disaster
yet at this critical moment one of the greatest
building campaigns in my history was about to begin in PAL engaged
and the King behind it would remain unknown until the middle of the 20th
century
in 1949 solve the questions regarding the mysterious dynasty appalling they
are answered what archaeologists a burger Ruth rudy Gay
is excavating the 75-foot hi temple now call the BB inscriptions
now I'm in pretty good shape but those guys had hairdressers big roads
obsidian knives and swords
I thought I'm in pretty good shape for an old guy anyway but I don't know how
they did it
an hour I'll murderously a
did it but I still got a lot to go when he gets up
into the sanctuary he looks around
any notices on the floor
a role holes covered with stones
Stoppers any figures out that these holes were made ropes
your report the slab just like I'm on a tractor or
so it pulls up the slab does what exactly
and he follows a steep staircase
filled with dirt and debris he's never seen a my pyramid like this before
swordsmen start digging and a game
and digging into the unknown
North there's
are very slippery from the moisture and time
in the rain have forced many finally gets down to a plateau
any notices that the whole pathway doubles back and then continues any
fines
hidden doors secret passageways signs that a lot of talk calculation went to
building the structure
finally after three years
the three long years he'd get to the bottom of the city for its their way
and there's he's a small core in the corridors
stone box in the box r6
skeletons the remains have souls were sacrificed to protect the person for
whom this temple was built
but it still doesn't know who that person was and many finely sees
a huge door a massive triangular system
so is many
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and behind issues triangular door is a faulty
cribs about 30 feet long and 23 feet high
and inside the crypt is this massive sarcophagus
car bomb one piece up limestone anatomic the sarcophagus is this magnificent lead
with these
expertly carved image is a big teen along this
edge by the way which covered with Cinemark redstone
is poison touch to keep looters from coming in here in ruling in
by the way the ancient Egyptians my views this we might have had more
difficulties come into that country today
along this hedges the image of a shield and up in the sanctuary is another
image above shield and the ancient Maya WordPress shield
is packed hall so Alberta ruse
had discovered the to move the most important my act King
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carl's ascension to the throne 6:15 a.m.
came during the most critical time for Pearl NK 0
with no direct air the elders have Palin que had turned to an outsider
Arroyo who lived outside the kingdom named Lady side
now she returned to Poland came with her adolescence on
a car the future of Palin k hung in the balance
as the young boy was crowned king by his mother
was just 12 years old
she's so it kept the throne warm for him for over
10 years while he was going out the as the young king grew into adulthood
a car had to do. find himself to legitimize his rule
he declared his mother to be the leading
embodiment up the first mother who created humans
and the gods
he then was the son uva goddess and exalted position that removed
any question up his legitimacy and he was
almost certainly charismatic fellow he had on then he had no power base he had
to do it almost on Pier charisma and determination
as a johnny-come-lately as someone who needs to prove himself
he's going to be a splashy as possible and so he constructs
the most ghadi buildings imaginable is establishing
all sorts of new architectural patterns
to authenticate his lineage the concept of
on a building spree to revitalize his battered
Kingdom day
won his first orders a business the renovation and expansion
the royal palace an impressive structure that sits in the heart of the main plaza
more than 70,000 square feet
the powers would become amazing galleries chambers
stairways courtyards and tunnels and was designed to reflect his ideas
avg rancher at first because
architects like those two outta my own world employed what is called the Korbel
fault to support their soaring structures
on now this is a a pretty straightforward palm structure where
passers are the lines of stones whatever decreasing height and laid on top of
each other
so forms really a condom inverted v-shaped with the road capstone's along
the top
but the cornball left something to be desired this basic Construction Limited
interior space and light and forced architects to build walls wider than
even
the city close driven by a determined King
to carl's engineers now look for solutions to this problem
well-appointed designer succeeded in doing was lining the white
on me produced some honeycomb structures
on the top of these buildings they could make this pans wider
area and more like could come in these innovations reduce the stress on the
load-bearing walls
creating a more open and inviting feel than the traditional Maya buildings
over 60 years a Carl's builders became the best in the new world
but it wasn't until the end of his rule the Carl Commission one of the most
complex
an imaginative project ever attempted by the Meijer
the temple up the inscriptions
the discovery the temple inspections change to our ideas about my appearance
they weren't supposed to be mortuary
shrines inside along a stairway leading down to the tune
engineers build a psycho ducked or hollow to
it's a conduit that allow someone on the top of the pyramid
to speak into this speaking to and eventually you will be able to
presumably communicate directly with
call in his tomb is 20 tons sarcophagus
was built to last an eternity
essentially had a lead which was rolled off to one side
and there was a cavity for his body to be could so that when he eventually did
die
the door was sealed and the stairway was blocked
is architects and sculptors designed a common
rich in symbolism portraying the resurrection up the car
in the after
royal scribes were ordered to draw agreed to accommodate 640 clips
that would tell the story up a Carl's rain many Maya
pyramids don't leave much text or record
on them the opposite is the case in the temple inscriptions
everything about it from these huge tablets on the summit
to the information inside proclaims that this is the final resting place
the founder for the great mayan dynasties
p.m. 683 during to carl's sixty-eight years came
the 12-year-old boy who grew to be one of the great my rulers
died at the age of 18
he was covered in red cinnabar and adorned
lavish jewelry Jade mask was placed over his face
the legacy of the car the grade would be hard to match
his son had been waiting on the sidelines for nearly 15 years
with the clock ticking
he would launch a series of building projects harnessing the laws of physics
hand mother nature
I'll in 1985
calls burial mask was stolen from a museum in mexico
fortunately four years later the mask was recovered
done
684 Mb the mighty king
karl has engineered and then K to be one of the finest Maya capitals
ever known after sixty eight years on the throne
his body is buried in a tomb that rivals those built for the Egyptian pharaohs
now it is up to his son to build upon his father's legacy
and cement his own way
his name was conned my mom
the car was the founder a dynasty but his son was
agree consolidator he was someone that was going to make sure
but that dynasty would continued
the 48-year-old king immediately threw himself into an ambitious 3 pyramid
complex
that would stand as his own monument for the ages
he designed and constructed are the cross group and one of the most
intricate and beautiful group ok ceremonial temples
ever constructed in my world
these are his memorial and they tower above
the Palace they look down on
the works of his father and in some ways I think they represent a statement a
individuality that he himself
is going to leave his imprint on the city just as his father did
he ordered his engineers to build three intricate structures
the Tampa love the cross the Tampa love the foliated cross
and the Temple of the Sun
conlon's engineers would take a giant leap forward
using sophisticated geometric calculations
I'm surpassed anywhere in the world based on my is creation have a complete
number system
one of the many ways in which the Miami were ahead of their time was in there
creation no what we would be for two this era with this in combination over
official the which represents 0 or
completion and then a dog number one in the fight
by just you placing them in different positions
they were able to multiply you know and veg
incredible numbers the Greeks and Romans were tremendous
engineers theologians historians and so forth but
work behind limited by their mathematical system because they didn't
happen 0 Syria the irony that
they were able to curb produce great Public Works
philosophy and whatnot but a really pretty lousy mathematicians compared to
the mine
arms engineers advanced mathematical observations
may have included the discovery of proportions like the square root of
rectangles
and something called the golden
a naturally occurring proportion that can be seen
animals nature and even human body as one
to 1.618
measure a person from his head to his belly button and then from his belly
button to his feet
you get a proportion very close to one 1.618 the golden mean
some scholars believe this proportion has been appearing in structures
for thousands of years at places like the Pyramids at Giza
in Egypt and the Parthenon in Greece
Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a study at this proportion
and some even say he painted the Mona Lisa
using this ratio in her features with nothing more than some sticks
and accord combo llames engineers may have been able to measure the square
root of rectangles
in the Tampa love the cross the shapes would be used to mark the two main peers
and the facade
the with them the medial doorway and the interior walls
the golden ratio can be seen in the region boers
and the base have the structure with the side wall is one
and the back wall as 1.618
by using repeated squares and natural proportions in a temple up across
a beautifully calculated floor plan took shape
to love geometry mythological history and a king's own legacy
but not all engineering and polling que was done with and I
on the afterlife
the lawn games engineers also had to focus on more practical means
and one of the names a plank is lock 'em ha which means
play some Great Waters Omnia for rivers running through plank a year-round
them dozens have springs we have water everywhere
these riches came with challenges
LNK was surrounded by steep hills
natural springs and creeks carve their way through the base at the site
leaving only bits and pieces flap water free land for building
unlike most Maya city the plan on breaking point K
was in how to store water for the dry season
it was not a deal with an overabundance the water as you can see
everything is green here rains everyday so to meet this challenge the city
planners devised a unique way of diverting the pre-existing streams
by building subterranean aqueducts that would kill the water underground
saving more
time for cultivation these tunnels were lined with limestone and ever covered
with our old friend from Egypt and Greece
the Cornell ball series a protruding stones one on top the other forms for a
large overhead
Nani ceilings were sold 30 they could support the massive weight appointees
giant plazas overhead so the people were walking along
with the water Russian underneath them being diverted away from the city
just like it is where I live today in New York City
what even more impressive
is that there are signs that my engineers may have figured out a way to
create
water pressure
pay bill water tunnels that ran through the rugged terrain
into the city often directed uphill as they got closer to the main structures
the pipes got incrementally smaller like Roman fountains
the water pressure gained momentum as a course through increasingly narrower
tunnels
eventually allowing for running water throughout Lang kase
buildings we have beautiful system some upswept bazhan
swimming pools and of what up in its day
it would have rivaled any of the Roman aqueduct systems we don't see the issue
so
a water pressure any warehouse in it doesn't appear again until the Spanish
bring the technologies with camp
together conlon and his father a car ruled polling case for nearly 100 years
pushing my engineering to a level never seen before
the future seemed bright for this city on the rise
but it two years ago Lori are about to come to a sudden end
something is happening in the my own world that will cause the classic
city-states
to implode
the mine who developed the concept of zero by the 4th century AD
but the europeans wouldn't understand the concept until eight hundred years
later
by the eighth century
LNK to Kyle and the other kingdoms a mile
work spanning across the continent told pyramids
unparalleled City Planning and sumptuous royal palaces
advertised the glory of the great kings
bands suddenly the city's began to unravel
one after another
royal sculptors stopped carving their monuments with historical information
and Kings halted their construction projects Maya civilization had plunged
into darkness
yeah
it's not that the entire Maya lowlands is abandoned overnight
edge that you know one Kingdom Paul's here and another one
ten years later falls over here then another one over here
the causes the my collapse remains a great debate
among scholars who really talking about a society that was pushing in softer
limits
there is no one single explanation for this implosion
but scholars seem to believe that environmental catastrophe lead to a
full-blown
meltdown for the Maya civilization the soil no longer produce crops
does lack of food and polluted water produced malnutrition and disease
the Maya could no longer count on their kings to intercede with their gods
because they're great society was in a death spiral
and they're taking you so long counted on for guidance and prosperity
were powerless to stop it so sadly but slowly and surely the people voted with
their feet
and the agent my left her beautiful cities forever
there were no signs of mass graves
they did not vanish where did the millions have my ago
if you want to go where was happening you move north Co
go north hampton the city's that No
die in the south and that's the only way to describe it as
they just go into oblivion far
never really replaced but there are locations
all around the Yucatan Peninsula where the city's not only thrive but they
begin to
grow explosively good base growth was enhanced by an elaborate network of
causeways
called suck daze or white roads
the sock base weren't just local transport they were
emblems up the great political power
to allied cities that had the wherewithal to create this magnificent
royal procession way
between the two kingdoms as much as sixty miles long in some places
they were a Marvel Avenger nearing
it would place
huge robson both find all the call sway
and then feeling whatever was in between with call balls and
on finish Roxana sold and then the homer molded surfers with
dot com nyse: blaster on and then
upon the the greatest smooth surfaces
in the Yucatan Peninsula the sock pays off in charting a course through the
rough terrain
in perfectly straight lines
it's not easy to cut my line 60 miles and doesn't deviate even a
even agreed I would really like to know
what instruments they use we have no record of it these cars way systems
allowed for rebirth
movement and trade in the north and it is there that the ragged survivors at
the southern lowlands
hope to find a second chance in a you couldcan city called
cheech and each side
two-tenths I came to be largest and most powerful city from about 800 to ten
fifty or so
that had a real knack up being a big tent
so it was a very cosmopolitan place and I'm sure it traded
handsomely on that reputation
one of the building's unique to the site was el Caracol
an astronomical observatory the Maya were obsessed with both time
and the stars and spent centuries looking to the sky
for answers
the Meijer probably had something called a gnomon twitches
a series of two crossbars and by looking at the intersection of those two bars
they were able to focus on something no
with just basic tools the Maya were able to track the movement of the stars and
planets
and the passing of time
like Stonehenge this was the place where people could make solar and lunar
observations
staircase in the front of the building faced twenty 7.5 degrees north west
out of line with other structures but in almost perfect alignment with penises
most northerly position
in the sky it was closely aligned with the celestial bodies
and occurrences such as the movement of the news
and the solstices
in higher tower in the building three openings
survive today
they are small narrow and irregularly placed
today along along astronomical sight lines
in the car call me can see and as for inpatient
and its peculiar displacements and its auto alignment a building's
a focus on white penis was
doing at the time venus is a kind variable
actor up there in the skies
sometimes it moves in this direction sometimes it moves in that direction
the conical seems to be about looking at Venus when it's come to the
and if a certain kind of motion
least as dude astronomical observation allowed them I had to
they're interlocking calendars that were more accurate than
any other used in ancient world
the Mayan had to calendars one ritual
and then you know that the solar calendar that is very very similar to
what we use in the worst the world
my new measures the solar year to be 365 days
their measurements for the revolution penis and the occurrence and lunar
eclipses
work equally on target
in just two hundred years my had achieved a rebirth in the wake of the
catastrophic destruction up their southern cities
but now the North would face an even deadlier enemy
one that was capable annihilating them I'll while leading their cities
hematoma future needs is renowned for its well if sacrifice
it is said that humans in precious objects were tossed into the sinkhole is
offerings to the rain god shock
in the ninth century the Classic Maya sitting
suddenly mysteriously collapsed ending date hereof
greatest prosperity and growth rebirth
in the north gave them my an opportunity to combine astronomy
and engineering
on unprecedented scale
that you can use our signs have continuing obsession with the skies
left a permanent mark on my own architecture
cornerstone of church anytime was the 98 Ford
am Casteel for the castle built in the ninth for 10th century
365 steps equal the number of days in the Myers civil calendar
52 panels on each side represented the minus fifty two-year cycle
9 terrorist levels equaled the
18-month Myers solar calendar and the temples
axis was perfectly aligned so that specific shadows were cast twice a year
for any my own was done in a new look into the northwest a sector
the cast see you they will see a balustrade
and then the combinational shadows on the Sun
Union that Paul just before sunset
and then summer triangles for
and then %uh the very bottom with the abuse by the street you have
and 90s hard certain head
a snake coming down from heaven and that is indicating
the arrival of the rainy season a minor saw this phenomenon
as a manifestation of the deity cool cool con
feathered serpent
the Mayas were able to actually record you know the Equinix
that day in the year word nine-and-a-half you know last the same
every year March 21st you see the descent of cocaine can
surrounding L Casteel
the civic buildings took on a new characteristic
spaciousness with a broad open plaza
temples market place's a ball court
and colonnades
so the cali hold not only house
like this do the feast in advance but maybe the individuals were brought into
the PLASA
you know the general public was believe I did depending on the location succumb
to the plaza and witness the arrival this evening
traders and merchants Greek or Roman
in appearance these round columns were used as a new type of structural support
and where an architectural first in my own world
the benefit of a column is that it allows you to create
flack group you're not investing all appear energy
in creating stone buildings that ever going to be
containing Corbeil faults which may or may not
collapse
comes were simple in design round Rams were placed one on top of the other
filled with rubble in between
a square section was placed at the top and Dan flat rooftops native stucco and
wood
were added to perform expansive covered interiors
get involves people more openly in the life
what the building and of what's happening within it than would have been
possible with Maya pyramid to the
Fall Classic Period those pyramids are mostly about
exclusivity it's about showing a space
holding it up I but allowing very very few people to look into it
the open column structures are much more inviting
but the welcoming atmosphere didn't last long after more than two hundred years a
domination over the Yucatan
church an HR suffered a fate similar to its neighbors in the South
it mysteriously collapse
when the Spanish arrived on the shores of the Yucatan Peninsula
in 1517 every large cosmopolitan Center in the my own world
had been abandoned
even sell have splintered Maya civilization
living in small villages across the countryside
put up a sustained fight against the conquistadors
could prove difficult to conquer because rather than
taking a cane captive or tamper as it did with the Aztec
they had to conquer one village at a time and once they moved on to the next
village there be one behind them that would then
begin to rise in Revolt Maya warriors killed conquistadors by the thousands
but their weapons proved useless against a more potent and
seems
within a hundred years ninety percent the population in the world
was gonna DeMayo who survived faced further persecution
prior Diego deal under had been sent from Spain to convert them I had to
Christianity
pension ruthlessly forced his religious teachings
tierra de la under was a young idealist who came to the new world
trying to save souls trying to win converts
to what he referred to as the one true faith
but them I didn't believe that they should instantly and forevermore
reject on their own believes on July 12
1562 mondo ordered out all day
or burning up to my attacks
believing they were the writing the devil
this was the end thousands years
said the cumulated knowledge Maya civilization when the Greek tragedies in
human history
in on marquee twist to fade for codices survived the inferno
and wear and tear of time by the 19th century
summer these books that happened to escape the clutches at those fryers and
they're instructive urges
began to make their way into public attention
today their survival story is just another mystery
in the complex history in the mire
the fact that they were able to sustain urban civilization in the rainforest
for 1500 years through all sorts of logistical and
and other challengers as one that we should admire and one from which we can
stand to learn a great deal
just as the Meijer looked from the ground to the sky for guidance
we're now looking from the sky to the ground
for cancers the in recent years nasa and the University of New Hampshire have
been experimenting with remote sensing technology
to see if they can determine where undiscovered cities
might be hidden the mountains rivers
covered in trees that appear on readings me
actually be ones that ancient cities that had not been touched for centuries
more answers to the Maya mysteries may be right be moved our feet
my archaeology is just beginning there are
in new mobile cities in new mobile temples innumerable settlements that we
have not been able to study and excavate I think we're entering
golden age in my archaeology and I can only see in the next century
a time in which this will become one of the best understood civilizations in the
ancient world
we now know that the Meijer were innovative a creative and majestic
people with her own particular taste for violence
but what is the real love the Meijer what is this mystique
that draws generation after generation the world over that was complex and
sophisticated civilization
is that the architecture with the Surrey palaces and temples or the intricacies
of hieroglyphs an apartment complex writing system
mowers at the astounding comprehension of astronomy and mathematics for the
concept of zero
unparalleled in antiquity or is it simply because these remarkable people
carved in tires cities not just gorgeous and towns but magnificent cities
right out of some the most inhospitable landscape in the entire world
the in the rain forest between Honduras in the UK and there are literally
hundreds and hundreds of miles
sites that are untouched in poland get alone there are
1500 buildings that lie on excavated including temples
larger than that one and if you consider the archaeological treasure ship to be
found in cities like
college students are I say and I'm sure I'm not alone
that the real
the buyer the real magic and mystery from the civilization
my the mysteries the still live very
d within this John
might be well over these churn