Quest For The 1,500 Year Old Mayan City of Copán | Fall Of The Maya | Chronicle
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- Deep in the emerald jungle of Honduras lies the lost city of Copán. The enigmatic carvings of its ancient Maya builders guarded its secrets for thousands of years. The city was a major capital city during the 5th to 9th centuries AD, commonly referred to as the "Dark Ages" in the West.
Join these researchers an historians reveal stories of Mayan blood sacrifices as they uncover a world so foreign as to defy our understanding of it. From excavations deep in the jungles of Honduras to the most recent interpretations of hieroglyphic messages, researchers are unraveling the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Mayans.
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I’m from Copan Honduras too.
It makes me proud we also have some fingerprints of our history as other civilizations, wether good or bad.
It’s in us, in our blood is Copan.
I visited Copan in 1983 while my American Army Hospital Unit was stationed at the Honduran Air Base now called Soto Canto.
Fascinating place.
Lived in Honduras for 3 years back in the early 1970's. Have been to Copan. Awesome place.
Interesting. Made back in 1992. Almost ancient history itself.
I resent that as an 80’s baby
@@JippersinCornwall 🤣
Huh, feels like not so long ago. However, the people in this are pretty dated. Anyone notice how the American speech is different? I can often tell when I am listening to someone in the 80s, early 90s.
Soo lucky to have gone in my lifetime
Gimli narrating a history program. Things I didn't know were necessary.
John Rhys-Davies can't avoid roles that are obsessed with treasure. Gimli, Sallah, and ancient civilization documentaries.
He played a classic role in the mini-series "Shogun", a number of years back. He was my favorite character in the series.
Beautiful
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The archeologists thought they understood the writings, and created a whole culture about these ancient peoples. Then a later set of archeologists came along, and said that was all wrong. The new archeologists said they translated the language, and created another, wholly different, culture. The video didn't explain how they had the right translation of the writings. So, what's to stop another set of archeologists coming along with another translation? With the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, they had the Rosseta(sp) Stone, was there something like that in this case?
Maya isn't a dead language, it's still spoken by the modern Maya, once the basic construction of the glyphs were cracked the rest followed logic. And much like in Egyptian hieroglyphs, not every Maya glyph is translated. For instance Pre-Classical hieroglyphs are to this day a complete mystery to archaeologists.
This video is 30 years old.
Excellent
John Rhys-davies - the Bud Spencer of archaeology 👍😆
Mayan descendants will tell you differently
It's funny how many people don't know that John Rhys Davies is British (Welsh, I think?) and not Arab or Persian or Turkish.
I don't see anyone arguing this
Too short!
What year was this show made?
Good question, it seems a little dated to me.
@@keithmccracken5557 I think it was originally aired in 1991.
@@susanfabian1521 thanks.
1992.
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What, in the Mayan world, was not dark?
How about if all the surmise about Maynard life is a figment of the imagination of the achaelogist developed by western experience? If you build a house of cards eventually will crush. Our western arrogance is great- what more can i say?
The people who build monuments have it wrong! Yet over and over again it happens.
The Turtle Island Indigenous figured it out.
Then the Europeans ruined their way of life
as wrong as it is to build monuments. Its ever worse to try to destroy what's right and good in this world.
Peace to us all! May stop being evil to one an other and start being kind. Given a choice, if its not kind please don't do it.
The lies got to stop we still here
"We"? You're not even part of the whole Native American circle🤣
@@jr.solaris253 so called native Americans are invaders fuck you mean we are the original American Indians not mongols
@@willielilly5130 Your kind came from Africa. Europeans brought them here against their will. You keep believing in your afrocentric theories. At the end of the day, you're not part of MY People.
@@jr.solaris253 the only Africans there are is you pale faces africanus to be exact North Africa and Europe it's right there together learn your jeans man learn your genetics we are procreatic cells y'all are eukaryotic cells
@@jr.solaris253 you people are Chino's made Indians y'all came from angel's island we were always here melanated people was all over the planet fool
None of these fools here have any concept of the mayan people, but they all profess.
Great. And now they're all here in America.
That’s only because the US has a history of constantly destabilizing Latin American nations and making them unlivable. You have only yourselves to blame really.
Those Mayan ruins have a bad vibe. They were abandoned for a reason. Like the devil walks the streets ....
so ignorant
I can't watch this. They're just walking amongst the stink
Those so called Mexicans are Asians and they are not the mayan
wow this is ignorance on too many levels
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You couldn't pay me to go through any of that city. Or those tunnels.
That shit is evil.
what makes you say this?
@@joseph8762 too long ago to remember the context sorry
it's beautiful and that's fine because it's not your history, no one wants you there with your ignorant comments.
So don't come, stay home! We won't miss you.
@@teresafernandez9849 no love lost heathen