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