Breaking The Ancient Maya Code | Archeology | Timeline

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[@charliefortney3445]

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[@robinlillian9471]

This is from an a 20 year old cable television show before everything was "reality" tv.

[@SpirusOfH]

You tell them, Robin!

[@jeffaltier5582]

Interesting for a different reason than normal. This is an older documentary and its really interesting to see how far our understanding of the Maya has come in the last few years. It really shows how history is alive and always changing as we learn new things.

[@ivorytower99]

Back in the 1960s, my Father used to travel to Mexico, to study the Maya and their culture.

[@aniceman2109]

ivorytower99 the Origen of Mayas is Guatemala my friend old country of Mayas.

[@Stefanie3]

@@aniceman2109 You are very wrong "my friend" they where a bit everywhere and also in South Mexico! Research before correcting others.

[@Stefanie3]

@@aniceman2109 Coba in Mexico was a large ancient Maya city! Enough to study for my taste.

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

PALENQUE: the site of a former Mayan city in SE Mexico, south-east of present-day Villahermosa. The well-preserved ruins of the city, which existed from about ad 300 to 900, include notable examples of Mayan architecture and extensive hieroglyphic texts. THE SO CALLED AFRICAN PEOPLES ARE THE INDIGENOUS 'MAYANS'. IT'S NO WONDER WHY THERE IS A LARGE POPULATION OF SO CALLED 'AFRICANS' THERE.

[@teresafernandez9849]

​@@judaprinxbeatz.8008 Afros r only 1.4 percent of a country of 130 million people! There is NO Scientific proof of ur BS! NONE! Get over it, u ain't Native and we ain't Afro! Science and genologists disagree with ur wannabe BS!!

[@mehekkhanolkar3325]

I love this KZbin channel so so much !!! You guys feed all of my historical curiosities and always keep me coming back for more. Almost wish I'd studied to become an archeologist so I could learn more about these civilizations ! Thank you so much.

[@henrycarey5657]

Once I realized Sallah from Indiana Jones was the narrator this become 5 times more badass

[@joxer96]

Henry Carey He’s also Gimli from LotR. 👍🏼

[@boardcertifiable]

And Dr. Arturo from the show Sliders

[@widehotep9257]

17:53 "Most of them probably died of the results of the overpopulation." That's not what scientists are saying now; newer research shows a SEVERE DROUGHT lasting 100 years caused food shortages and deadly famine that destroyed these Mayan city-states. Some death estimates exceed 20 million. Neighboring Mayan city-states farther north on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico were not affected by this catastrophe and survived intact. When the rains returned to the abandoned Mayan ruins, the jungle reclaimed the land. Today researchers are finding more and more Mayan cities buried under centuries of forest growth, especially in Guatemala.

[@melodicarpenter5820]

I love John Reese Davis. I love his voice and he is a great actor. Amazing man.

[@johneyon5257]

"Rhys-Davies"

[@tonkingulfyachtclub8111]

John Rhys-Davies Actor

[@goyoelburro]

Umm... the Maya never "fell". Most of southern Mexico, and almost all Guatemala and parts of Honduras are full of people who speak different Mayan languages like Quiche' and Pocomam.

[@ghost4613]

😊 Mayan from India,Asia

[@timothyrichmond8978]

"Quiche"...like Kesha wanna know who where the Maya are its in plain sight

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

PALENQUE: the site of a former Mayan city in SE Mexico, south-east of present-day Villahermosa. The well-preserved ruins of the city, which existed from about ad 300 to 900, include notable examples of Mayan architecture and extensive hieroglyphic texts. THE SO CALLED AFRICAN PEOPLES ARE THE INDIGENOUS 'MAYANS'. IT'S NO WONDER WHY THERE IS A LARGE POPULATION OF SO CALLED 'AFRICANS' THERE..... IN A WAY 'WE' DID "FELL".

[@jamustabella9775]

@@judaprinxbeatz.8008 ?

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@timothyrichmond8978 for the black culture vultures from USA, bc that's where these cullture vultures come from. They are to far gone. they can't grasp the concept or science of skin color. They are obsessed with a theory, a theory, not a scientific fact, that they think gives them the right to culture vulture everyone and their grandmother. The ancient DNA studies have been done and verified. The Aboriginals of Australia r NOT from Africa. Neither r the Negritos from the Philippines, or the ppl from Papua New Guinea. Seems like the features that ppl think r unique to Black Africans, Caucasian, Asian,ect, r not. It's been known for a long time that diet and environment can dictate ur physical appearance, including hair texture and skin color. These culture vultures just can't grasp it, to far gone. For these wannabe interloping intrusive menacing culture vultures, it's all about an old picture of dark skin ppl on old cave art, or a picture of dark skin ppl on a link. Really primateve thinking like a child. Pitiful!

[@jessetorres8738]

I love this channel's documentaries.

[@jeanclaudejunior]

Me too

[@newjojosupercutsandmore2489]

was not expecting gimli

[@frazerrhughess]

Wait is Gimley the dwarf taking me to Copan?

[@sbenton62]

No it's Treebeard

[@Adara007]

Gimli and Treebeard, yes ☺

[@ErinReviews]

Are we about to battle for middle earth?

[@eddietheloggie]

Interesting video, it would have been nice to get some details about how they 'translated' the 'gliphs but still interesting. I worked in Belize in 1983 and travelled to some of these sites in Belize and S. Mexico.

[@smithgov]

There is a good documentary on that called cracking the Mayan code. So interesting.

[@FacesintheStone]

Great presentation

[@drrsc]

Remarkable backpedaling from a couple of these researchers trying to distance themselves from earlier ideas about the Maya when some of them used to say the exact same thing about the peaceful natives and so on.

[@ackermanlol]

Which ones?

[@theexperiment8498]

Good old fashioned documentary, well done

[@RR-1977]

....And my axe!

[@pops1507]

Nicely done.

[@pvkjhilk8323]

funny how the Maya & Inca Empire get treated compared to Roman Empires when it comes to war, death, blood, blah blah blah. im sure there are no biases here.

[@drc4320]

This "doc" has not mentioned and avoided many factors of reality... Probably a religious person's view that there is a new god in town. Why tf is there no mention of the spanish inquisition and how its better to be "christian" rather than a bloody murdering savage - oh, you don't have a gun?

[@joxer96]

Pvk Jhilk Everything I’ve watched or read about Roman history has been rife with info on how violent their expansion was, not to mention some of their entertainment.

[@ghost4613]

Proud to be Mayan 😊👍 😏👍

[@martinzitter4551]

You are Maya. Mayan is the name of the language you speak.

[@ekbalahou4112]

@@martinzitter4551 wrong bro Mayans have different dialects bro

[@martinzitter4551]

@@ekbalahou4112 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

PALENQUE: the site of a former Mayan city in SE Mexico, south-east of present-day Villahermosa. The well-preserved ruins of the city, which existed from about ad 300 to 900, include notable examples of Mayan architecture and extensive hieroglyphic texts. THE SO CALLED AFRICAN PEOPLES ARE THE INDIGENOUS 'MAYANS'. IT'S NO WONDER WHY THERE IS A LARGE POPULATION OF SO CALLED 'AFRICANS' THERE.

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

YOU MUST LOOK LIKE A SO CALLED AFRICAN AMERICAN IF THAT IS THE CASE LMAO

[@goofydog2]

@18:50 he speaks of deforestation on a large scale thus preventing rain clouds from raining in the valley. I wonder how deforestation causes the loss of rain clouds???

[@goofydog2]

@Bethlehem Eisenhour Dog who?

[@goofydog2]

@Bethlehem Eisenhour I haven't done anything of the sort. I posed a question in hopes of hearing some opinions that might inform me as to why deforestation inhibits the quantity of rain. Consequently, your response is absolutely coming from NA-NA land...

[@aryafeydakin]

Yes it occurs that the trees seed the clouds with certain compounds that they emit and also certains bacterias that live on their leaves and are shaked by the wind to serve as nuclei for a rain droplet to form. Trees also "bridge" the humidity from the coasts to the inner country by evapotranspiration. Remove the trees and all you get is total drought. The mayans cut all the trees to make lime for their obsession with pretty stuccos (but as time pass, their stucco got thinner and thinner as they lacked firewood, that's a fact), and grow corn monocultures, and they had to relocate due to a huge kickback of the local climate. Yuccatan also don't have any flowing rivers so that was a fatal mistake. www.networkearth.org/videos/Trees_1.html www.networkearth.org/videos/Trees_2.html

[@goofydog2]

@@aryafeydakin This was a response I was hoping for. I thank you very much. ...I have lived in Tucson Az. from the mid 1950's to present. Before Tucson became so populated, the summer monsoons were as dependable as a Swiss watch (well, ha). But as the city developed, the desert was mowed down and concrete and pavement replaced the natural ground and fauna that was so prevalent. Now, monsoons are very unpredictable. There are some great years of rain but too many dry years to not notice the changes. Thanks again and I will check up on the sites you list. Peace...

[@SizzleCorndog]

I like that they talk about how the Maya are still around as an ethnic group. Now the thing about the loss of their history we don’t know a lot of their history/ society because the Spanish literally burnt their books. We had an estimated 10,000 codices before the Spanish burnt all but 4 of them.

[@teresafernandez9849]

The Maya, Aztecs still around, but you all just call them Mexican Americans. I'm Native from 2 Mexican tribes. We r still here. The narrative of the USA, is so skewed about Indeginous ppl, you can hardly find any truth in it anymore, and their world is ever so small about Indeginous ppl. Thank goodness for Mexico, South America and the ppl on the Rez, they are the truth keepers.

[@israelbustamante3885]

great book of knowledge and history

[@canttellyoucuzurastranger9400]

the absolute unit

[@alejandrogodoy4696]

THANK YOU!!!

[@smithgov]

I am heading up to Northern Guatemala in two weeks to visit Mirador. One of the places the Lider technology was used and they found many more structures than originally was expected. I will be up there for three weeks so watching as much as possible regarding the Mayans. This was a good video but many more to consume. Any recommendations?

[@herewegokids7]

As a Catholic of European descent and also child of Baptist missionaries to a Catholic country...this really makes me ponder even more how we Christians although well intentioned, have mixed evangelization with cultural decimation. Our Lady of Guadalupe notwithstanding, perhaps in the future, Christianity won't be so interwoven w Western (Roman) culture

[@babyfacetuchgold2364]

No disaster , they all ascended

[@3Dimencia]

hm... like easter island... no trees, no life.

[@LePedant]

Professor Arturo!!!

[@driver2909]

I wonder what ancient Mayan,s would think about all the commercials

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

imagine people in the future going through our graves

[@georgecuyler7563]

We Turtle Islanders have stories that go back thousands and thousands and thousands of years, we have the stories of the great flood (Noah's flood) and dependent on your location you were rescued by giant Turtles, Birds or Whales . Heiltsuk people were thriving in their territory during the last ice age 15000 years ago. Pictographs were found in south America that dated 30000 years ago. We have stories that tell of visitors from across the seas on the east coast and the west coast of Turtle Island

[@Ryan-eu3kp]

Trying to ifnd info on the 30,000 year old pictographs, do you have a link? really interesting stuff

[@VictorMartinez-or1wy]

The Maya did not disappear, we have the new generations off Maya descendants now live among different groups.

[@victoriacaine7040]

Is that Pat from SNL??

[@fauxtaco3426]

1st cousin

[@dogslivesmatterdanielstanc214]

It's always been sead that the Mayans have stated we did not build any of the pyramids

[@L.P.1987]

¿?

[@jamustabella9775]

What ?

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Dear God! Slaughter, sacrifices, wars! Gotta wonder who did all the work?

[@stephanetiana4834]

Ok, but what was the ball made of? 🤔

[@markgarin6355]

Strange...but I've never heard how the Mayan's did all of the intricate stone carvings? Iron tools? Never heard they were big on metal tools.

[@jasonmgavitt2357]

Metal working was fairly known in ancient America.the purest most easily workable copper on the planet comes from Lake Superior. There are ships from the late Bronze Age discovered off the coast of turkey loaded with Michigan copper.there have been numerous copper weapons and tools found around the Great Lakes,and further down the Mississippi River valley.as well as petroglyphs of Minoan,phonecian type ships on rocks around Lake Superior.there have been massive copper smelting pits found all around Lake Superior.

[@DreamBelief]

Really? Their ruins are absolutely covered in intricate engravings. How did you miss that?

[@markgarin6355]

@@DreamBelief no.. you must have misread my statement.....I understand that they were covered in intricate carvings.... I've never heard anything about what they used to carve them with. European history is keyed to the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age. What did meso america have for implements other than flint?

[@caesarillion]

I wonder about their drug use. Thanks for the docs.

[@RichardBrown-qt2tx]

They used medicinal plants and fungi to talk to their gods.

[@teresafernandez9849]

There is no wonder about USA drug use, more drug addicts than any other country. Hypocrites!!

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

That guy from Sliders

[@comfort_rain]

Everybody know what happened to those people and who did it.

[@oneyebat7839]

Who did what to them?

[@comfort_rain]

@@oneyebat7839 they were slaughtered. They created genocide on the men and had babies with the women, creating a whole new race and gave them their religion and language. Period point blank

[@riyazuddin6743]

@@comfort_rain who were they??

[@newarknative3678]

@@comfort_rain yes.... But we are still here.... Just reference as other...

[@haterboy19888]

Thumbnail looks more like inca architecture

[@HoodaThunkit-sj3lk]

Mostly because Thompson hid the truth for so many years and the Spanish created the fictional Popal Vuh

[@Simonjose7258]

Nice but...why now?

[@michaelwilkinson2110]

Gotta love the exaggerated Richard Burton Jr narrator. Ah, wait, it's the dude from "Raiders" (and Gimli from "LOTR").

[@Califresh21]

Maya the Ancient people of central america

[@daniellerawlins3887]

Aztlan is Atlantis the fatherland

[@daniellerawlins3887]

The Mayans were fron Lemuria mu the motherland Aztecs were from aztlan

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

PALENQUE: the site of a former Mayan city in SE Mexico, south-east of present-day Villahermosa. The well-preserved ruins of the city, which existed from about ad 300 to 900, include notable examples of Mayan architecture and extensive hieroglyphic texts. THE SO CALLED AFRICAN PEOPLES ARE THE INDIGENOUS 'MAYANS'. IT'S NO WONDER WHY THERE IS A LARGE POPULATION OF SO CALLED 'AFRICANS' THERE.

[@whokankapkan7685]

Copàn: Suffering from success.

[@pressure609]

Ok boomer.

[@33piolin]

It was my understanding that a young 14 year old american boy (son of archeologists) cracked the hyroglyphics?!?

[@kidgay3730]

David Stuart. He finished the decipherment when he was 18

[@SizzleCorndog]

No it was a series of archaeologists from all over the world including a pair of Soviets. Ancient Americas did a pretty well sourced video on it if you’re interested

[@bradensmommie1]

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[@blakepanthers3361]

Thanks you christianism

[@Spidey-tb3tu]

Pagans.

[@XX-ct2sz]

Christianity is pagan

[@ssntiagojames6288]

I DONT BUY ANY OF THIS LECTURE BUT I'M WORKING ON IT, VUKUBE'EK BAALAMB'KU K'ULKAAN.