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The thing with the Mayan and Guatemalan people… they need no one else to survive and thrive.they are a completely self reliant people. I know, my husband is of the culture and kiche people, the prevalent Mayan civilization in his area, thriving still, today.

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I love their culture. They were extremely advanced and far from "savage". They went through the same processes as many cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe. Europe wasn't much more advanced when they found the Mayan, Aztec and Inca. Yes, they had human sacrifice but so did Europeans before they became "civilized". I put civilized in quotations because I don't see people who had slaves and waged war over greed and hatred as civilized. They were savages, whether they believed it or not. And I can hear it now: "but the Indigenous peoples also did this". Yes, they did, but that just proves that Europeans weren't better than any of those around them even if they were ignorant enough to think so. The people of the Americas weren't around the cultures across the sea. The people in Asia and Europe had each other to help advance and they partially advanced together. But you cannot say that Europeans were the only advanced ones and they helped everyone. Far from it. Europeans benefited from much knowledge from Asia, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and other continents. Also, Europe didn't help much. Many Asian cultures advanced farther than Europeans without any assistance from Europeans. Many African cultures and American cultures were far more advanced in many things as well.

Where is part 2?

Good to learn about ancient civilizations. The Mayas were great builders. Unbelievable to learn there are so many advanced civilizations around the world who built enormous and beautiful buildings from Borobudur to the pyramids of Egypt and Africa to the Indian temples and the structures found in China. To much to mention. Great.

Yo this video is premium. Thank you. I've heard of this site before, and this video not only updated me on whats happening there now today, but you also helped me understand the history more and piece it all together. Also, your editing is REALLY F***ING GOOD. Keep doing that, where you add sourced photos and live map updates. That's what elevates this video to premium status.

Oh baaby this is going to be a good one. The Mayans are my favourite civilisation, awesome.

Very interested in learning the results of the Japanese team using their 'Muan' technology. I had heard of it before when the scientist who created it used it on a volcano, in Japan, to learn the trail of lava and the size of the lava chamber. I believe it could be advantageous to utilize this technique on the emperor's mound in China. Excellent video.

We just returned from the Yucatan Mexico back to Greece. 13 days 8 cities, countless villages, 5 archaeological sites. An incredible trip

Thank you for very informative documentary video. I love the way how it is edited. What happened to the Japanese findings?

This is brilliant, glued to the screen the whole time

Perfectly crafted documentary. Enjoyed😊

What stands out most in this series is that not one single Mayan was consulted in this entire two year excavation. The Mayans are not all gone. Mayan is still a spoken language in parts of Mexico and central America. I traveled with a Mayan shaman to all of the sites in the Yucatan peninsula and listened to his teachings, passed down to him for generations. He had a lot to say about the western interpretation of their culture. Most of these interpretations, he said, are wrong. You'd think archaeology would have decolonized itself by now.

Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I am so fortunate to work in this part of the world and feel so grateful for how many of these cities I have visited. LIDAR is going to show us so much more!

Wow this is awesome

Question: if Copán only had 20,000 people living in it then how could they have possibly built such a spectacular city?

Interesting but the amount of advertisement breaks in this was just way over the top

all these structures must of took a really long time to construct o.o

I wonder what it would cost, in modern times, to build a 9 story replica of a Mayan pyramid. Stone by stone.

Love this.