Ancient Metropolis: The True Scale Of Mayan Cities | Treasure Tombs of the Ancient Maya | Odyssey
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- Hidden by dense undergrowth, the true size of ancient Mayan cities has been poorly understood up until now. Join a group of scientists and archaeologists at the cutting edge of the field as they reveal the true size of these ancient mega-cities.
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The thing with the Mayan and Guatemalan people… they need no one else to survive and thrive.they are a completely self reliant people. I know, my husband is of the culture and kiche people, the prevalent Mayan civilization in his area, thriving still, today.
Mayan’s are gone lady.
@@FearEeatsTheSoul NO, they aren’t. Can’t you read?! There are still Mayan people, Mayan language, Mayan blood, Mayan culture STILL AROUND TODAY. Go to Central America, your ignorance is disgusting.
@@FearEeatsTheSoul they actually are not gone, Mayan culture still thrives in communities in South America, my family is of Mayan decent 🇬🇹
Meaningless derp.
@@KaelynMoran Hello fellow Guatemalan. Mayan culture existed only in central America. if you don't know the difference between central and south America, please open a book and learn some geography. 2nd of all mayan culture is absolutely not thriving. they live in huts and extreme poverty.. most "Mayan" communities cant even read. The Mayan culture was crushed and the ones living today are just living in denial.
Yo this video is premium. Thank you. I've heard of this site before, and this video not only updated me on whats happening there now today, but you also helped me understand the history more and piece it all together. Also, your editing is REALLY F***ING GOOD. Keep doing that, where you add sourced photos and live map updates. That's what elevates this video to premium status.
Where is part 2?
yeah, where's part 2?
@@mikkelhong8566 Where is part 2?
Very interested in learning the results of the Japanese team using their 'Muan' technology. I had heard of it before when the scientist who created it used it on a volcano, in Japan, to learn the trail of lava and the size of the lava chamber. I believe it could be advantageous to utilize this technique on the emperor's mound in China. Excellent video.
* muon
We just returned from the Yucatan Mexico back to Greece. 13 days 8 cities, countless villages, 5 archaeological sites. An incredible trip
no one cares
@@mustardbrown It obviously disturbed you and your miserable life
@@souloukex6680 not at all. literally no one cares.
@@mustardbrown Oh but you do - otherwise you wouldn´t comment. How sad....
@@coppermoontravelsthanks for informing me
Good to learn about ancient civilizations. The Mayas were great builders. Unbelievable to learn there are so many advanced civilizations around the world who built enormous and beautiful buildings from Borobudur to the pyramids of Egypt and Africa to the Indian temples and the structures found in China. To much to mention. Great.
The Khmer at Angkor-massive!
Perfectly crafted documentary. Enjoyed😊
Thank you for very informative documentary video. I love the way how it is edited. What happened to the Japanese findings?
In the late 60s, my mom subscribed to a monthly "magazine" for teenagers. One was on Egypt, one on the Aztecs, the Incas, the Maya. They came with stickers to place on designated places. I was disappointed that the writing hadn't been solved. Then I heard that something, very much like the Rosetta Stone, had been found. All of this is so cool!
Wow this is awesome
Love this.
Interesting but the amount of advertisement breaks in this was just way over the top
I'm Mayan and so is my wife.
This is an ex-parrot!
Well don't snitch
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I am so fortunate to work in this part of the world and feel so grateful for how many of these cities I have visited. LIDAR is going to show us so much more!
Oh baaby this is going to be a good one. The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, awesome.
Maya. Mayan is the language.
@@dustybees6308 It´s true - but even throughout southern Mexico, INAH continues to use "Mayan" in instances where some intellects say it should be Maya. Makes it truly confusing.
@@dustybees6308 grammar police no one cares about your grammar rulesets, everyone understands the sentence but you's, you are the special one for not understanding
Very very very interesting!
How do I watch part 2?
anyone
This is brilliant, glued to the screen the whole time
I have mixed feelings about the documentary. In some parts, it feels too superficial. The part which I found the least impressive is about deciphering the Maya’s writing sign system. The break through was done by not a group of scholars but a Soviet scientist from Saint Petersburg, Yuri Knorozov. I could guess why his name was not mentioned but it diminishes scientific value of this documentary even more.
You have to listen better, so you don’t only hear. He is talking about an specific text not about decifering the writing system, furthermore their are also no other lunguists mentioned. Decifering an writing system is always an group effort untill one person suddenly has a brain wave.
Commentary in English may have Simplified😊😊😊
Yes, Yuri contributed immensely.
Yeah and this documentary is making it seem like the evidence for Mayan warfare is discovered. And saying they were better at astrology than we are today...
They were absolutely genius astrologers, but to say they're better than we are today is kinda laughable.
@@BSIII certainly astrology, but I think he was talking about astronomy.
Thanks
Why don’t you show the amazing carving on the top of Pakal’s tomb.
all these structures must of took a really long time to construct o.o
Question: if Copán only had 20,000 people living in it then how could they have possibly built such a spectacular city?
Only need a few hundred. 1,000 workers would be ridiculous.
They’re Mexican they only needed a crew of 12
Ingenuity.
The same way Egyptians built the pyramids
@@CDLCDL702😆 good one
The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, Great....
It just hit me that our history or how we are known for is told by the leaders/kings and queens. We really need to do better! I hate to think how we are written about down the road.
Fascinating, thank you!
its amazing how the world got such amazing technologies after the supposed landing of aliens in the 50s and 60s
What stands out most in this series is that not one single Mayan was consulted in this entire two year excavation. The Mayans are not all gone. Mayan is still a spoken language in parts of Mexico and central America. I traveled with a Mayan shaman to all of the sites in the Yucatan peninsula and listened to his teachings, passed down to him for generations. He had a lot to say about the western interpretation of their culture. Most of these interpretations, he said, are wrong. You'd think archaeology would have decolonized itself by now.
Was the shaman's name T'zec?
Does the shaman preserve the traditional practice of human sacrifice? Better not turn your back to him. 😂
In general terms, I understand what you are saying. As far as the shaman you traveled with, how do you know what he was telling you was correct?
I went to Chichen Itza two different times and hired two different Mayan guides. Neither of them could read the inscriptions (my last visit was 2006) and both told me that the ability to read those inscriptions was lost to time. They did share much of their culture with me, but it was significantly different than their ancestors, whose lives they did not know in detail.
You dont ask a greek person to tell you the culture of ancient greece do you?
The only thing that I agree with is that you're right, we didn't die out, or vanish. We're still here. That is a fact, not a belief. Everything else is subjective
Great video!
A fantastic civilization
I wonder what it would cost, in modern times, to build a 9 story replica of a Mayan pyramid. Stone by stone.
@@BabyJesus-nz4nm I knew it would cost a lot. How did Egyptians pay for it all?
@@8arrowsthey weren't paying materials and probably not labor either
They couldn't do it successfully or accurately with all their modern machines.. Impossible!
@@BabyJesus-nz4nmthe core limestone in the Giza pyramids came from roughly 400 miles away, not 550. The outer blocks were quarried from Tula, which was directly across the Nile. Your estimates are likely flawed, as you seem to be basing the cost on a bunch of unnecessary logistics.
@@panzerswinefluthe workers who built the pyramids were paid workers, not slaves. They were paid in honey, grain, gold, and beer. We literally have ancient Egyptian pay stubs on clay tablets, written in cuneiform, in the Cairo Museum.
Does it have a second part of the episode of it hasn't come out I'm really into what they discovered
I love this history, it is so immersive. When I see the ruins today all cleaned up I think there must be some guy with a lawn mower keeping everything down lololol what a sight that would be
Years of study, and haven't got no further than a 5th grader! ❤
It is meant for people everywhere not only scientists.
"haven't got no further"? Are you sure you even graduated the 5th grade?
Rather they won’t actually share with the world any findings beyond what they would share with a 5th grader.
correct @@showbread9366
@@showbread9366as an Archaeological Surveyor, I can assure you that all of our findings are published. Just because you aren't smart enough to find them or understand them, doesn't mean we're hiding anything. Sharing our results is literally how we secure funding to continue our research, you clown. We work for universities and research institutions. Hiding our findings serves no purpose, and yields no benefit.
Enlightening to say the least. What a tedious excavation as bodys and artifacts become evident as they push further down the temple grounds
All this went on when Europe was not even developed properly, so the Spanish stole it and took it to Europe. I loved the documentary
I love their culture. They were extremely advanced and far from "savage". They went through the same processes as many cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe. Europe wasn't much more advanced when they found the Mayan, Aztec and Inca. Yes, they had human sacrifice but so did Europeans before they became "civilized". I put civilized in quotations because I don't see people who had slaves and waged war over greed and hatred as civilized. They were savages, whether they believed it or not. And I can hear it now: "but the Indigenous peoples also did this". Yes, they did, but that just proves that Europeans weren't better than any of those around them even if they were ignorant enough to think so.
The people of the Americas weren't around the cultures across the sea. The people in Asia and Europe had each other to help advance and they partially advanced together. But you cannot say that Europeans were the only advanced ones and they helped everyone. Far from it. Europeans benefited from much knowledge from Asia, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and other continents. Also, Europe didn't help much. Many Asian cultures advanced farther than Europeans without any assistance from Europeans. Many African cultures and American cultures were far more advanced in many things as well.
Exactly - the Maya had use of the number Zero, had incredible astronomical observations and data, were amazing architects, artists, and their nobility performed excruciatingly painful blood sacrifices on themselves too. In Europe, fanatics were burning women at the stake, and the torture endured by countless thousands over several centuries was worse than modern horror movies....
I have always felt that way!
Sorry but they did not have human sacrifices, that part was
made up by the conquistadors to justify all the masacres they
did during the conquest of Mexico, there is no evidence at all..
I'm happy to see them using the tech in Copan because at least here if they find a void it will be explored further unlike in Egypt. Geeze that was so frustrating "hey we found this void" Egypt "okay pack up your tools thank you for coming" "maybe we'll look into it someday" to many politics in Egypt
What puzzles me is that nobody mentions that all of these steps are abnormally LARGE. Very big people would need to be stepping on these stairs. These structures are like huge seating thrones where they would walk up to and sit on and overlook upon everybody and be seen by all from all around. When they spoke from these rock podiums, the whole jungle could hear them speak. But nobody wants to say this for some weird reason.
Yes I'm suggesting they're very gigantic people who led or were admired, even if they weren't the leaders. Maybe just occasional visitors who ruled over everybody and made announcements. Maybe they didn't even rule and they only guided on occasion.
I’ve read it was so that the “higher ruler” I think that’s the right word was High above everyone else and so that people that wanted to go up the pyramid had to climb up the stones so it was as if they were almost bowing and showing obedience to there “higher ruler”
why does big steps mean big people. I mean all over the US there’s steps that aren’t high but are very wide, does that mean that all united states citizens have giant legs and/or feet, no, it doesn’t. It could simply be artistic or symbolic just like wide, flat steps are used now.
@@zackeryhoven1361Nice cover story. Also, should the royalty also be bowing as they are climbing up the stairs? No.
But yeah, those who are of higher level (think about what higher may really mean}, would probably be comfortably going up these steps as they are much larger creatures.
The artistically designed steps that we have in our "modern" time never make it extremely difficult to walk up the steps. In fact, artistic steps you reference always continue to make it comfortable and convenient for one to walk across as you're lifting your legs up across them. Such steps as these of this video are clearly made for a larger creature. A larger human or other. Whatever it was designed for to be climbing these steps at a convenient pace and comfort height is clearly a larger creature than what we have in our time.
My Mayan Ancestors Deserve The Truth Of Their Achievements World Wide Taught In Schools All Across America!
They achieved the same thing other cultures did. We're all smart.
@@kagusconhe didn't say otherwise
@@kagusconthe Mayan civilization was NOT comparable to the "other" civilizations. Their invention of the calendar and understanding of astronomy THOUSANDS of years ago is something we would struggle to do even to this day with modern technology. To say "all civilization" were the "same" at that time is an insult to their achievements and understanding of the world. The same can be said about their understanding of otherworldly topics as well.
@@highpsiguy4085the Mesopotenian societies and Eastern , Egyptian etc. had reached the same level. It just needs observation and a logical mind. That is something humans have and need all over the world.
@@highpsiguy4085every civilization is comparable with every other civilization as a matter of fact. To compare is not judging if done objective.
Japan Started In Honduras called Copan
They did this without horses ,wheel 🙏🏼
I’m not so sure about the part of not having the wheel. Any monkey could of learned that round stones, and logs, roll. Just by watching gravity shit roll down a hill. I don’t know why people think it’s impossible for ancients to carve a wheel. Look at some of their wheel shaped jade earrings.
I know for a fact the ancient Egyptians had chariots. A chariot is basically a trailer. And they had beast of burden, like domesticated horses, and oxen. To pull a “chariot”-“trailer” loaded down with stone.
In Peru they uncovered a little carved lama, or alpaca, on 4 wheels. It was a ancient toy. That a kid can pull around on a string.
The mayans and the mongols are some of my favorite civilizations to research about.
Good Doc, too many travelling shots
Why did you guys just re-upload with a different title tonight? I mean, are y’all that hard up for content that you’re reposting the same videos every two weeks?
Capan ❤
you know this was a real discovery...no humans can do this type pf work now a days lol real craftsmanship and care unbelievable work
Then where do all these earthquake resistant skyscrapers come from? How are we building space craft, if we can't build a stone building? The amount of ignorance ot takes to say something like that, when we are literally building aircraft that can break the sound barrier, and buildings that dwarf these, while simultaneously creating a Large Hadron Collider that literally recreates the Big Bang, is absolutely laughable. Leave the thinking to folks who don't have a head full of candy corn.
The stairs… 😳 Omg, those are some steep stairs! 😮 The vertigo hits me through the screen, I might be able to get UP them, but DOWN? Nonononono…🤢 13:20
I bet they never showed the Olmec heads
It seems that technology is only allowed to go so high; then it is destroyed.
Isn't this a old one? Am sure I watched this a couple years ago...
Just another program all hipped up and nothing at the end of it!
just like everywhere else everyone only remember the rich kings not the servants who built everything
Look into modern Egyptology. They've not only uncovered new "lesser class" ruins and mummies, but they're starting to focus a lot on the "real" and "common folk" that MADE the ancient Egyptian civilization as we know it.
imagine their just chillin in their afterlife wither their sick jewellery and as soon as its taken off their corpse poof it disappears and there just like bro wtf
If we can have train terminals under the ocean; all pyramids are connected underground; in fact all living is probably under ground or under oceans or mountains.
With complete seriousness, NASA should send a LIDAR-equipped probe to survey the surface. Including the poles. It would answer that one fundamental question: if formally 'wet' Mars harboured life, could that life have evolved a human-level intelligence?
No
nasa...
it would not answer that question lol.
11:45
Pakal came from another world,
It's weird how after watching this, in the hopes of youtube auto-playing something related to the mayans, it jumps to different channel and back to back plays roman history from the same channel. Very odd. Done this twice now.
Where is the next video?
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🇬🇹❤Guatemala the Mayan heart
Sun earth ☀️🌋💥
Is it possible that the reason Maya cities were seemingly randomly abandoned and resettled periodically, the roads and the calendar are linked? Perhaps the roads are only connected to certain cities is because they would periodically migrate between the cities in any linked group, leaving one or more in the chain abandoned each time they moved? This could be related to their cyclical view of time or some other religious or astrological reason. The main reason I wonder this is because religious pilgrimages seem to actually be fairly common in the cultures of the Americas.
Places without flowers are not for me.
What?...
Japanese archeologist are solid 👌
I wish pundits would get away from this 'they needed a huge monument for agriculture' trope - they'd have to have excess food supply to allow building in the first place. Do they really imagine these people mastered massive masonry projects _before_ planting crops?
Some Maya states near the sea consumed fish. The Yucatan peninsula does not have good soil.
The Mask!! Life imitates art imitates life!! 😲😲😲
Mayan king's jade mask is same as ancient korean king's mask. They also used a lot of jade jewelries. DNA analysis should be done to find out.
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Excellent video, thanks. I have to say it feels wrong & disrespectful to dig up graves, though. Just saying…
There is a grand correlation, of ancient Egypt, ancient Maya and ancient Japan.
How? Think of Yonaguni, the underwater pyramid, off the coast of Japan.
To better understand, Japan's grand history, archeological items must be discovered, at Giza, Egypt and Maya, Honduras. Perhaps, studying, at all three places, simultaneously;, might forge a wonderful physical event; an action, that might bring back, ancient interstellar beings. Who might save this war, ridden Earth. ( Wars, that have occurred through all history).
It to my assumption that archeologists of Japan, will easily discover great findings of all three sites of antiquity. Why? Simply, the Japanese archeologists, aren't looking for items for riches, ( like British, German and American; researchers ). Japan, is looking for the home world, of their ancient lady, that was discovered centuries ago; whom came from a grand disc and who carried an UN-opened box and who didn't speak Japanese; but who might have inspired ancient Japanese, buildings.
Note: Lesser known, is that Japan, is in an ongoing fight, with underground, interstellar beings, that do not recognize, Japan's, interstellar royal history.
Thank You
Shaun🦉of
New York City
Why does a person interested in this subject also have to learn to appreciate the high strung music that 'vitalizes' every other frame? This is no way to learn.
350 square km is not fast. It is just a city state, like the Greek polis.
Anyone want to fund a trip for me visit one of the pyramid. Always love ancient history but when people find out the look at me weird, guess because I'm black from the streets and with diamonds on I guess
Extremely toture chamber Mayan celebrity 5595
#qepd ❤
"Astronomy that was incredibly precise, huge pyramids ...." yet they owe nothing to ancient Egypt? Ancient Aliens.
What happens to the kings and queen and their jade
Mayan did human sacrifice right? I haven't heard anything about that.
Yes and why should they. This is about archeology not sociology
Modern historians like to brush-out unpleasant facts from our history.
@lemming9984 yea I don't mind they did it, just teach us about it, was a different world then maybe they was on to something.
lol you didn’t see the top on the pyramid of course they did. Hundreds of thousands of sacrifices.
Hell yeah they kept over population on point lol. The good ol times
I hope that people disturb the graves of every archeologist that has existed just like they disturbed so many souls. They study these cultures snd know how important their burials were.
Those are not earings; they are ear phones.
Imagine what knowledge we could have gained if the Spanish didn't destroy almost all of the Codexes.
😢
32 mins in and it's repeating info and still nothing has happened
as much as I enjoy the history, I always feel sad when they open peoples tombs/coffins. and it bothers me that the treasures are removed. yes we want to learn but do we really need their treasure on display. Although I have heard of looters steeling from coffins, for their own gain. Kama is likely to catch up with them anyway. But yeah, it just feels so wrong.
I agree , with technology like LIDAR they would still learn, reproductions and photos would still tell their story. I enjoy learning about ancient civilisations however I do feel it is grave robbery with a degree.
Yheyre thinking is different
I love how she says the Mayan civilization was ran much like the ancient Greeks spanking many kingdoms with many but this is incorrect. Not at all like ancient Greece. The Greek civilization was ruled by one Emperor in an Empire that was divided up into City states the city states was controlled by the Senate's who was controlled my the Emperor. On the other hand the ancient Mayan civilization was controlled kings in each kingdom whom they had complete control over their kingdom and if they felt the need they would build allies with neighboring kingdoms or choose to go to war with them but it is very important to make note that they all thrived for so long for the fact each king respected each other and understood what was needed to care for their kingdom at aa great level of intelligence that is rarely exhibited in today's society
I meant many kingdoms with many kings at the first part of my message 😅
@@haleybrewer3003have you ever read about Greek history. It doesn’t show.
Lol no you obviously don't know Greek history.
Copan brautiful Im love
You don't know Greek history and you don't know Mayan history.
The equally way to present as valid and accepted knowledge as unknown makes me critically doubt the whole story depicted . To my understanding a less prejudiced and manipulated discourse would have been much more acceptable. I am a person of biological science and critical thinking was the first rule of thumb.
Anyone else think the mask on the thumbnail looks like Thomas the Tank Engine?
maybe the other kings are not found because there is no tomb as a result of being captured and killed
See hand holding blade of sword?
Square glif.
Now look where finger goes
Round with 3 dots
Now do you all see anything different?
We are that tightly in our ship
Because the ship and I are 1
Mayans? Great landscapers
35:52 "In Maya society competition and power struggles were widespeead. War was really important for the Maya". And so too for the Americans in the USA. The Maya civilization is gone and civilization (if you can call it that) in the USA will also disappear.
Well, it seems that they were at an epic around the time of Pascal. With some kind of contact. Like the rest of the world , they left. After that we have all battled it out. Maybe we have all been given a taste of space and maybe even hybridized. Then they left. Or live in the sea. But they certainly do not show themselves to us directly.
So aliens then ? Not just intelligent people doing great things with what they had .
their pygmy size was already an indication. the other species was taller and more slender with virtually no body fat, as oppose to being more stout and shorter.
@@Wolfsbane909What other species?
How the hell do you know the name of the KING?????????
No, it did not collapse; it was destroyed in a cataclysm;
from which only 8 remained alive.
I just love how they put México in central America knowing that’s part of North America and that my people the mayas and Aztecs are the true and only owners of the Americans.
Lol, dude, you look like you're 99% of Spanish-Italian descent. You're white, you don't own anything :D
I am Miwok and you are a liar.
Only 20000 people lived in that area. I'm calling bullzit
Leave rhe trees alone