As a shut-in, disabled vet I want to say how much I appreciate your excellent channel. I love studying history and it's channels like yours that help bring the classroom to my bedside. Thank you for sharing these thought-provoking programs!

One year I was at Chichen Itza at the equinox, we watched the 'snake creep down' the side of the pyramid as the sun passed. About 1000 folks showed up to watch, awe inspiring. It was a bucket list event. Love the content.

I've climbed that pyramid and saw the great red thing inside. All i remember is that it was extrememly hot and so humid that there was water running down the walls and it was hard to breathe. Me and my brother also jumped into one of those round blue underground lakes and swam with those strange black fish. I have watched numerous videos on this pyramid and NONE of them mention the coolest thing our tour guide showed us. He stood at the big snake head at the base then took 2 steps back and 3 to the right (something like that) and clapped his hands super hard. The echo of his clap sounded like a huge hawk cawing. He said the mayans understood sound so good that they designed it to do that on purpose. I tried it myself at age 13 and got it to work. My mind was blown.

I absolutely love, Love, LOVE this kind of exploration! If I could back my life up about 40 years, this is what I would do!

I just finished a tour here over the weekend. The tour guide is a Mayan. The Mayans didn’t disappear. There are still 7 million of them on Earth

I first read about Chichen Itza in a Scrooge McDuck comic book in the ‘50s. I was fascinated. I have been lucky enough to visit it three times and even climb the great pyramid. Thank you for such an outstanding documentary! ❤️ Shirley

I'm so happy that they did not remove the artifacts from the water. Truly appreciate the level of respect 👏🏼

Watching this after visiting chichenitza, it’s a great experience. I love to learn about history and the Mayans just amazed me with their attention to detail and intelligence. 🇲🇽

Just came back from visiting the sites. Now I'm going through my photos and videos following this documentary.

That is the most amazing place I have ever visited!

It's probably hard for people to realize it looks that awesome in real life. Really it even looks more awesome than you can imagine even when you're being there. It's a place that I would love to go back and spend a lot more time visiting and touring. Went on a cruise and took that as one of the places I wanted to go but it limited us to such a short visit it made me sick to leave. I'd advise anybody to go there fly in and stay in a hotel. Mind blowing awesome experience 🤓

This doc is great, delving into the cenotes and sacbes that were so important to the classic Maya. Lots of beautiful footage. Great job!

Just came from this place and it’s so beautiful!!!! The zenote! Refreshing water!

That is the most amazing place I have ever visited.

I love how science and math plays a role in how a temple looks

Just came back from Mexico and swam in a cenote near Coba. I am not one of those people who normally feel presences, but I got the distinct feeling of being watched by something that did not want me there, and I felt like something was squeezing the life out of me until I got back to the land above.

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This is a great documentary. Appreciate that I'm not being assaulted by the noise they call music blasting through most of these docs and movies.

So glad all this Amazing humans ❤️ with their knowledge and high quality of interest on the old Mayan Ruins teach all Humanity what they represents. God Water The star's Forest The magestic under water tunnel Lime stone best construction materials, we ever see survive 🙌 Thousands of year's just Majestic cities. So proud of my Blood DNA ❤️ God Blessed 🙌 our Mayan Tribes live in Guatemala, Mexico 🇲🇽 Belize, El Salvador and Honduras, they all have structures was part of their Territories 🏞🙏👈

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That was so interesting! Great episode.

Very cool, science channel. Thank you.

Muy buen documental ( Es curioso que las misma forma de estas pirámides están en la isla de cuba en la costa norte de la provincia de pinar del Río en el fondo del mar a 650 metros en el fondo Del Mar y hay una ciudad que aparentemente se hundió o que esa ciudad es más vieja que las de Yucatán y que al moverse la tierra 🌎 esa ciudad desapareció en el fondo Del Mar ) fuera bueno que se documentaran y que comenten sobre las pirámides en cuba 🇨🇺 felicidades por su canal es muy bueno

I was lucky enough to have visited this site and actually climb the pyramid. Once you get to the top, the views are breathtaking. Jungle as far as the eyes can see.

Fascinating stuff here. I like like like.

congratulations for your channel is very interesting!

The odd thing about Chichen Itza (or rather, the odd thing about the way it's perceived in the present day) is that it wasn't really a Mayan city. There was a Mayan ceremonial center which included the small but decoratively impressive buildings that make up the older part of the Nunnery Group, but this could hardly be called a "city." The monumental architectural style and iconography that people associate with Chichen Itza aren't Mayan at all: they're primarily Toltec, though the Toltec did expand upon existing structures built by the Itza, barbarous cousins of the Maya who settled in the area after the original inhabitants had departed. This isn't a minor distinction. It's the key to an actual understanding of the city. The Maya were there first; then the Itza (who spoke the Mayan language but were considered savages and held in low regard by the "proper" Maya). Finally, the Toltec people from central Mexico settled there. The Itza had built the original pyramid, but the Toltec enlarged it into the Castillo. That structure is physically impressive, without a doubt...but when I visited Chichen Itza, I couldn't escape the impression that the real mystery lay in the smaller but older Mayan ruins. These are the vestiges of an advanced culture which remains enigmatic: a culture defined not by war and human sacrifice (as the city's later inhabitants were), but by a preoccupation with astronomy--specifically the movements of Venus--and mysticism. Who were the Maya? How did they develop a calendar more accurate than our own? The huge stepped pyramid at which tourists marvel is alien to the Yucatan; it was imported there from another place by another culture. It's possible, even likely, that the original Mayan ruins which stand in the jungle were as mysterious to those later settlers as they are to us today. These buildings are surrounded by an entirely different atmosphere than that which characterizes the rest of Chichen Itza. Something unaccountable seems to have happened in them, and standing in close proximity to these structures is a little bit like standing near a haunted house, peering through a shadowy doorway at... What?

When I went there the guide said that they built the temple's as tribute to the sky people. They also had a game where you put a ball through this hole and the winner gets his head cut off. I can't remember the name of the game.

I was just there. The entrance to the cenote under the Castile is visible now but filled in

I love these shows that focus on the reality and intelligence of our human ancestors instead of saying “oh it was aliens!” Science is amazing.

it seems with all the quartz in south america that one of these guys would have looked thru a clear piece and made some form of lens to better view the stars just because we have not found one we can recognize dont mean they never had one. these people in the past were every bit as smart as us today and there are all sorts of raw materials that could have been used in many ways we never thought. most stuff over long time periods turns to dust and is remade over and over as found by others so we really have no clue what people thousands of years ago had or could do. we used to as kids take small crystals of quartz and start fires with sun light there is quartz crystals all over the earth. im sure they used them too.

I 💙 Unearthed

Feel fortunate that I got to go there and see this and swim in the cenote. I’ll never forget the stench of B.O. though lol

AWAKEN MY MASTERS

They act like Valladolid is not even there... It's the town there where the tour buses ride through. Id love for you to visit me here.

Wonderful Strong men

Speaking of blood, I’m hungry for some tamales. 🫔

think about this, in the middle of the temple was a red jaguar with jade stone, jade stones symbolize purifacation and balance , red is known for being "extreme" such as red being the color of blood, just like their human rituals and the jaguar symbolizes power , ferociousness , and also aggresiveness. now lets go back to jade stones, their human sacrifices represent balance in what they though was the center of their universe... this is a theory....

Haha "The soil is berry berry thin!" 😁👍

So was giza on top of water also.

WOW HOW DID THE DO IT

I don't think we have a fraction of the strength they had, nor are we exactly the same species.

AYAYAYAYAYAE **aztech dubstep plays**

I dont think its because of drought I think its because agriculture had channels using the water and there is no more agriculture and the ducts have since closed

I’m soooo impressed. Modern humans can’t do it

This is cool 🤓

Good luck lots of gold

The Aztec did not have beasts of burden and did not use wheels... I think possibly the Mayans were similar. Imagine being the guys who had to bring the carved pieces to where they would be installed on architecture... then imagine if they dropped it and it broke !!!!!!!

Why did they build this city in the jungle? LOL, back then, there was mostly jungle. Sure there were areas that weren't jungle but those areas were settled quickly. So you either have to find unoccupied land or fight others.

So after this, I would say that the Mayans were creative and brutal...the human and animal sacrifices in the way of torture, I don't think I have the awe and respect like others do.

Wheres episode 2?????

It's a fantastic theory of how this was done, all they need was to find a gigantic boulder 300 by 300 ft of perfectly flat stone and start carving with... wood!!! and work for x years until they got 5, 10, 15 thousand of this blocks and then transport them all to the right place... eight people to move a small boulder... to move 15,000 they would need 120,000 workers, plus the builders, plus... the logistics of this it is not feasible if you think about this theory. I might be a really stupid fellow, but... I might be not.

City of Blood? Why not City of Stars, since it keeps mentioning the advanced astronomy Or City of Sky and Earth since its so connected to natural cycles and processes. The sensationalism is ridiculous

Weird that the Great Pyramid in Egypt was also built over another previous structure AND has a big pool of water under it, AND has mathematical/astronomical significance built into it. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though, right? Not like they could communicate with each other, right? Or have a common source of information? I mean, it would be ridiculous to even CONSIDER that idea, right? 🤔

They didn’t use tools to make the limestone blocks. They formed the stones out of “ancient cement” in forms the same way we do today with modern cement.

Makes you wonder how they dealt with mosquitoes.

Um correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the Spanish land and first make contact with the Mayans? Before they pushed in to hit the Aztec and Inca civilizations?

What if the Bones found were ppl use as receiver an the scars are to stay awake

Are there any good movies about the Mayans or Aztecs

Im curious. At about the 20 min mark they get into human sacrifice to the gods but the people sacrificed appear to be the dregs of the society. No real loss. What if the sacrifice wasn't exactly religious. What if it was scientific? Medical to be precise?

Look at the codex people

The shelf at the bottom of the cavern might have been pre-flood

So they knew the movements of space. But still had to sacrifice humans? Engineers in construction but sacrificed humans because no rain but have a well under and they filled it with sacrificed bodies dumped into lakes of fresh water.

So? No Kukulcán appearance.

I think the cenotes were a cemeteries if they killed some many people like they said they didn’t have any people to work

I'll bet there's plenty more under all the surrounding vegetarian. Maybe not as big, but definitely there.

What happened to the Myans maybe a Flood? Naw, it had to be those pesty Aliens lol

Merida is 7 miles from Chichen Itza?! :D :D hahah okay....

As much as I find archeology fascinating, it still seems like glorified grave robbing to me. I think it's disrespectful to disturb Graves or to remove artifacts that someone was buried with and display them in a museum. I don't care how a person died digging them up and making a dramatized TV show with thier remains is creepy.

Why is she not stating the obvious that these bodies have been cannibalized. The scrape marks on the bones are a huge telltale sign?? Very interesting documentary, I just don't like when they stop short of the truth

7:35 finding a way to do it, does not mean they find the way they did... nor does it mean you found the best way. I feel like this program is doing a better job arguing for that ancient aliens show than the alien show did itself lol

Chichén Itzá is one of the best Mayan ruins but you have to realize the Guatemala has the best ruins in Tikal just saying

Really?a stone chisel?this is so ridiculous.I wonder what they teach in history class at school.

There is no way human like us made those building those people were different than us. Looks like other Civilization where in earth they had completely different mind of Architect .

Mayans often cleaned up after themselves

Does the placement of these articles on shelves date them to far beyond the historic dates of current belief? Were the first people who lived here from predynastic time when the ice age was in full swing, and the sea levels were far lower? That would answer the question of why they chose to live on the equator. Get away from the two-mile-thick ice. You should do LiDAR testing off of both coasts. Look for a continuance of the cities.

Could you imagine being a mayan.Shoot!!! it has not rained all week and everyone keeps saying thank you to me for no reason all day.If it does not rain before the next sunrise.... I'm out : )

There wasn't no jungle back then.

1.40 ,,

what ever happened to rhe mayan village before........

Shifting a free limestone block is one thing, cutting, moving and placing it is another. Show me start from finish and within a reasonable time, and then, and only then will I concede archeologists are correct.

Update this Earth and space

They said it was 160 feet deep. Has anyone dove to the bottom? Would need someone certified in cave diving and going that deep because trimix would have to be used

Yush

That is Flesh 🤔🤔🤔

Seems to me the Maya were quite an intelligent civilization, then why would they through human bodies into Sagrado Cenote less than 1/2 mile from the Xtoloc Cenote where they got their drinking water from? Maybe over the Malania children fell or just wandered into Sagrado Cenote...

Human sacrifice.still

This was a really good video, but I don't care for the sensationalist "oh no WHY did they practice human sacrifice, HOW did they move these rocks, WHY were these bones found in this spot" framing. Sure, it gets views, but it gives the wrong impression.

Did not have a weapon you forgot to stop allowing it

Blame it on aliens psychedelics or Meditation What ever the reason was people around the world seen or experienced something Nearly all have built temples to their gods plural What’s up with all the pyramids around that time too I wish they would tell us What they have found in Antarctica If anything I lean towards they are discovering things all the time down there

As capable as the Mayans were they should have been able to solve their water problem. What ruined their civilization was the practice of human sacrifice for the purpose of cannibilizing the sacrificial victims. The region lacked a source of animal protein and the maze was deficient in protein. The priests were the very gods they invented and then said needed human blood to survive. The lower classes rose up and overthrew their oppressors and left those horrible pyramids to the jungle. Put yourself for one minute in the place of those peasant victims and you will understand why they rebelled with anger and violence.

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There is a misconception here. Chichen Itza is a not Maya pyramid. If you want to get a real Maya experience, visit Uxmal, Tikal, or Tulum.

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What if they used blood to make the pyramid Spin faster 🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️ instead of water 🌊🌊💦 don't they say bloods thicker than water so in theory would it possibly make the pyramid 📐 🧱🧱 spin at a faster 🌪️ rate ???? Btw once a year the Nile river floods... That's a lot of water force 🌊🌊 in such a so called dry place . ..

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