National Geographics nye dokumentar «Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings»
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it's unbelievable as far as the eye can
see
jungle everywhere I'm Albert Lin
engineer and National Geographic
Explorer and I'm passionate about the
way new technology can help to reveal
secrets of the ancient world so we had
this augmented reality platform built
base off to the lidar data and it should
be able to tell us what's beyond the
trees you know it says there's a massive
temple just around the corner
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is huge
all right gives you like chills up your
back we just followed a map created by
lasers in the sky and then bushwhacked
for hours to this point
to find this this pyramid is just one of
tens of thousands of new discoveries
revealed by a new technology that seemed
beneath this jungle Canada for the very
first time
allowing experts was created treasure
map
of a lost world it's like a magic trick
this is amazing
it's transforming our understanding of
one of history's most mysterious
civilizations the Maya
we see buildings align to track the
rising of the Sun or align to the
movements of Venus
cosmically aligned like all Maya cities
every building in the heart of Tikal has
been extensively met
but hidden in the jungle it is never
impossible to see it in all its glory
until now
this is the world-famous tea call yep
that's the way it looks now let's see
tea called naked but we see without the
Queen's this is amazing for Francisco
and I because this is an iconic myocyte
we know this map we can close our eyes
and and visualize this map as we've seen
it on paper since the 1960s
I feel like I'm there a thousand years
ago and the people are still there and
just walking around
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after more than a century of study
archeologists thought they knew every
inch of Tikal but they were wrong you
see that yeah structure right there
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the lidar reveals a previously unknown
pyramid hidden in plain sight close to
the very center of the city
that's gotta set the entire archeology
community on a bus mistakenly overlooked
as a natural feature the team thinks
this could be an intact tune of one of
the richest tikal kings it's the most
important discovery and central tee call
in decades this is a cut in the floor
the Maya made this presumably to place a
bear out here there is a slight chance
this might be a royal burial it's
definitely in a very prestigious
location for the Maya burials within
pyramids were reserved only for the most
important people and finding a royal
tomb is incredibly rare as Francisco's
team searches for clues out of the dust
something unexpectedly appears
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we've just came upon a plate that was
face down at first it seems unremarkable
then fen Cisco turns it over looks like
it's fleshly painted and offering
I am the first person yes to hold this
my hand after 49 years it's a clue that
there really might be an intact grave
underneath but a heavy slab of stone
blocks their progress we don't want
anything underneath to break one wrong
move now could be disastrous it's
nerve-racking
no one was up all the signs point
towards this being a high-status grave
but out here human remains rarely
survive the acidic limestone soil
there's more rocks
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