"Em full Selva" "We're talking about a civilization ... discovered in the middle of the rainforest." "remaining intriguing of a lost civilization ... that dominated a continent, for over a thousand years." "they certainly had supernatural attributes." "Were the ancient Mayan ... whose kings graced cities with tall pyramids ... luxurious palaces and manicured squares." "Anyway, they were an advanced people." "They were very inventive and sought to control the energy." "Also created works of art and incredibly sophisticated engineering and supported a civilization for 1,500 years." "After generations of prosperity and innovations ... the old civilization was extinguished." "The bustling centers became ... in ghost towns that nature soon overshadowed." "Centuries later, answers to questions ... surrounding this remarkable people and their deified kings ... tell a story of conquest, ingenuity and disaster." "Year 869 of our era, in the jungles of Guatemala." "The Mayans began to despair." "Food and water were scarce, thousands died of starvation." "Malnutrition and disease punished the population." "The subjects no longer believed ... the kings knew appease the gods." "Revolts and riots racked villages." "One by one, major cities were being abandoned." "The old Mayan civilization crumbled." "City after city, area after area, everything began to crumble." "The cities were abandoned, the kings disappeared ... and what had been the Classic Maya culture came to an end." "What happened to this great nation?" "Until now, scientists are intrigued." "We know that the people began to disappear." "The question is:" "How did this happen?" "The answer may lie in complex hieroglyphics ..." "Mayan known as code." "A hieroglyph is a complex form impart information ... that Maya people thought and expressed." "That Maya people thought and expressed." "And it is the only example in the Americas ... a writing system complex and complete." "Today, these strange symbols ... reveal a brutal history wars of kings ... of immense power and rise and fall of a mysterious people." "Would Peter Weller." "I'm on top of this beautiful temple, within a forest ... southern Mexico, near Guatemala." "And this was the heart the Mayan civilization." "For years, archaeologists believed that the Mayans ... were divided into forty and few city-states ... each with its own dynasty." "There seemed to be trade and communication ... but any fight motivated by winning ... land and power outside the territory of each king." "Mas, in recent decades, these theories caíram ... because of a different story." "Hieroglyphics like this here ... remnants of the ancient Mayan system show a very different situation." "Means that beautiful hippie idea a friendly and gentle people ... has been replaced by a much more complicated system ... of city-states in bloody battles." "And now we have prov that violent conflict ... and human sacrifices were part fundamental life of the Maya." "But evolution Mayan ... this intricate network of city-states ... did not happen suddenly." "The Mayans probably appeared the two thousand years." "C. .." "Close to 500 B.C., the population had grown ... and small communities became larger cities ... scattered throughout Central America." "Two centuries later, had already organized states ... headed by kings much power and influence." "They had powerful kings." "Eles competiam each other ... and sometimes this competition led to war." "For the Maya, the war was determined by the kings ... on behalf of the gods." "The Maya kings were people like us ... but, for the Mayan people they certainly possessed supernatural attributes." "The price of devotion had brutal consequences ... sometimes fatal." "The people had a blood debt with the gods." "Not that they do not bind to human life or the blood." "On the contrary, blood and human life ... were what was most precious ... holiest being offered the gods ... to pay the debt contracted in its creation." "The bloodshed and human sacrifice ... were the key to the power of kings." "They gathered allies and attacked the neighboring ... both to appease the gods, to continue as sovereign." "Unlike the Romans, with the Mayans are not talking about ... an empire, but several rival kingdoms." "Around the third century A.D., Mayan civilization flourished." "No city managed dominate all other ... but one of them seemed to emerge on the horizon, Tikal." "Tikal is one of the few cities ... which strengthened the was pre-classical, BC ... and held power until the end the classical period." "It is a city that has always been powerful." "But in the sixth century, a neighbor called Calakmul ..." "Tikal began to threaten." "The Mayans had large capital Calakmul and Tikal." "These two cities measured forces." "Actually, it was Calakmul who struggled ... to create alliances around Tikal ... and ultimately to encircle the enemy." "It would be up to an ambitious and visionary leader ... build a center of military power able to win Calakmul." "Seu appointed era Yikin Chan Kawiil." "He built the great structural icon of the Maya ... a pyramid that could stand centuries of weathering." "The Temple of the Great Jaguar." "The most important monument was requiring too much effort." "Thus, a large temple pyramid-shaped ... was an indication of power, power and prestige." "It is a way to attract more people to the city ... because it shows how the ruler is powerful." "Build in a semitropical environment with rudimentary materials ... constituted huge challenge ... especially when the goal was to build vertically." "Most of the technology ... we associate the large stone buildings ... were not known by the Maya." "They had no beasts of burden ... had no iron tools." "What the Mayans had was an add ... almost inexhaustible limestone, and excellent hand-labor free." "The work was something that King demanded of his subjects every year." "Blocks of limestone were taken from the quarry ... and then pushed, pulled or loaded to force ... to site." "They used a kind of bag ... with a rope passing around the forehead." "And inside the bag they carried hundreds of pounds of material." "Stone by stone, the pyramid was rising to the clouds." "Wooden scaffolding supported the workers and the structure itself." "Builders davam way the limestone ... with stone tools and wooden mallets." "The inside was filled with waste material ... but the outside was carefully treated and covered ... by a mortar called Mayan stucco ... who painted red." "Despite knowing the wheel, despite knowing the metal ... they chose not to make practical use of either ... and I think in part was because of his worldview." "Something was most valuable it would require a lot of hand labor." "With 45m in height, Temple of the Great Jaguar ... seemed to emerge from the trees facing the setting sun." "This ancestor of skyscrapers, called attention ... who set foot the great square of Tikal ... as symbol of power and redemption." "But this miracle of Mayan engineering was only the beginning." "Em 736, King defeated Ykin its great rival, the king of Calakmul." "Then, in 743 and 744, Ykin attacked and conquered ... two cities that still surrounded Tikal ..." "Peru, in western e Naranjo Timor." "Finally, the web that threatened Tikal choke out broken." "To celebrate, he built a series of ... expansions in the palace, new pyramids." "And when we look to Tikal today ..." "In many cases, see the fruits of that success." "Maybe he started Construction ... the larger framework of Tikal, the Temple Room." "made com 190 thousand cubic meters of stone ... the huge pyramid reached 65m tall and 22 floors." "Almost twice the monument Christ the Redeemer in Rio" "It towered high above the dense green carpet of the forest ... offering panoramic views city?" "." "For discreet distance, other Mayan cities ... also tried reach the clouds." "But at that moment, having Ykin Chan Kawiil as king ..." "Tikal had certain supremacy among the Maya." "But she was not alone." "Longe dali, in search of 400km ... another dynasty developed the construction of a large acropolis." "In this place, in the seventh century, came a king of great vision ... to become one of the cities Rainier in the region ..." "Architecture in Mecca the New World." "Year 611 d." "C. .." "the periphery of the Maya region, south of Mexico ... the city of Palenque hung by a thread." "tried desperately defend ... an attack of Calakmul." "But his army was defeated ... and the king died, No heir." "A Mayan king was deified ... therefore his lineage was essential for the city." "The end of a dynasty, usually ended in disaster." "At this critical moment, the largest outbreak constructions of Mayan history ... was about to happen Palenque ... but the king responsible for this 'd forgotten ... by the middle of the twentieth century." "In 1949, some questions about ... the mysterious Palenque dynasty were answered ... when the archaeologist, Alberto Ruz Lhuillier ... excavated the temple of 22m, now called the Temple of Inscriptions." "Well, I'm in good shape, but they wore headdresses ... and large garments ... addition to knives and swords." "I thought I was in good shape for someone my age ... but do not know how they came up." "And do not know how Alberto Ruz Lhullier climbed." "And I still have much to climb." "And when he came the sanctuary, looked around ... and noticed that the floor had a row of holes ... and suspected that they String passed ... to lift the slab, as a trapdoor." "Then he pulled the slab." "This one, just ... and came across a steep staircase and covered with rubble." "He had never seen a Mayan pyramid like this before ... and his men began to dig and dig ... the unknown." "The stairs were wet and slippery ... by climate and the rain forest ... and he finally arrived a patio and saw a runner ... but continued ... and found hidden doors, secret passages ... sign that was necessary much thought and calculation ... to build this structure." "Finally, after three years, three long years ... he reached the bottom of the staircase and saw a small hallway." "In the hallway, there was a box Wood ... and in the box six skeletons." "The remains of the sacrificed souls ... to protect the honoree the temple." "But he still did not know who it was." "When he finally saw ... a huge door." "Huge triangular stone ... he and his men opened the door." "And then ... entered." "Behind the triangular port was a crypt ... plus or minus 10m 7m long and tall ... and, inside the crypt, there was a large carved sarcophagus ... in a whole piece of stone." "And on the sarcophagus had a beautiful cover ... with images of a king, carefully carved." "And this board, alias, cinnabar-covered ... this red thing, is poisonous to the touch ... and prevents thieves come and destroy." "Incidentally, if the ancient Egyptians had used anymore ... would townhouse More antiques there." "But along the edge There is the image of a shield ... and the sanctuary is another image of the shield." "The Mayan word for "shield" is pacal." "And Alberto Ruz had discovered the largest Mayan king's tomb ..." "Pacal the Great." "Pacal ascended the throne 615 m ... the most critical time of Palenque." "No direct heir, the elders of the city ... sought a relative the royal family ... who lived away from the kingdom, called Sak K'uk." "The lady returned to Palenque with Pacal's son." "The future of the city seemed to come to equilibrium ... when the young man was crowned by the mother." "He was only 12." "She saved the throne for him for more than 10 years ago ... as he grew up." "Upon reaching adulthood, Pacal needed to deify himself ... to legitimize his position." "He stated that the mother was the incarnation of the womb of the earth ... who created humans and gods." "Therefore, he was the son of a goddess, an elevated position ... which eliminated the doubts the most skeptical." "We're pretty sure that he was a charismatic person." "He must have been." "He had no experience of power ... had to do it all alone with his charisma and determination." "As someone coming from nowhere, as someone who needs to be said ... it was the most fussy possible ... and built unimaginable things." "He established new architectural standards." "To authenticate his lineage, Pacal built feverishly ... to revitalize the struggling city." "One of the first steps been renovate and expand the palace ... an imposing structure located in the heart of the central square." "With 6,500 m ², the palace became a maze of galleries ..." "Board, staircases, Patios and tunnels ... and is designed to transmit majesty and grandeur." "Earlier, as did in other Mayan temples ... architects employed the arch cantilever ... to support tall structures." "It is a simple structure ... wherein a layer of stones ... decreasing thickness is superimposed ... and forming an inverted V, with a row of stones on top." "But the arch cantilever was not efficient ... therefore limited indoor space and barred the light ... forcing architects build larger walls ... the space occupied by it." "Espicaçados by King, engineers Pacal ... sought to solve the problem." "The designers of Palenque managed to reduce the weight." "They made a hollow structure on top of the arches." "So, let the wider spans, lighter and more airy." "The innovation reduced pressure support walls ... and created a more inviting space than traditional structures." "For years, real engineers ... were considered the top of the continent .." "but only at the end of the reign Pacal is that commissioned them ... the most complex building and imaginative Mayan ... the Temple of the Inscriptions." "discovery Temple of the Inscriptions ... changed everything we thought about the Mayan pyramids." "They were not Funeral sanctuaries." "Inside, next to the stairs descending to the tomb ... engineers built psicoduto one or hollow tube." "It is a product that allowed someone at the top of the pyramid ... speak for this tube and he imagined himself ... able to speak directly with Pacal in his grave." "The sarcophagus of 20 tons was made ?" "to last forever." "Basically, there was a lid that slid to the side ... and had a cavity to the body." "When he died, the door was sealed ... and staircase, blocked." "Architects and sculptors created a rich casket of symbolism ... depicting the resurrection Pacal, in addition." "The scribes were ordered drawing a grid ... which would accommodate 640 glyphs ... telling the story the reign of Pacal." "Many Mayan pyramids lack textual records." "The case of the Temple of the Inscriptions is the opposite." "Everything about him, from the plates on top ... until the information inside, declares that this is the place ..." "Rest of the founder a large Mayan dynasty." "In 683, after reigning 68 years, the 12 year old boy ... which became the largest Mayan ruler, died at age 80 years." "Was painted with a red cinnabar ... and adorned with rich jewels." "A jade mask was placed over his face." "The legacy of Pacal the Great would be hard to match ... but his son waited in the shade, had nearly 50 years." "Running out of time ... he began building a series of buildings ... defying the laws of physics and mother nature." "684 A.D., the mighty king Pacal ..." "Palenque was adorned as no known Mayan capital." "After 68 years of reign His body was buried ... in a tomb that rivaled with the great pharaohs." "Now it was up to his son take care of the paternal legacy ... and sign up on the throne." "His name was Kan Bahlam." "Pacal was the founder of the dynasty, but it was his son who consolidated." "He assured that the dynasty continue." "The new king, 48 ... immediately launched a project ambitious 3 pyramids ... imagined for perpetuate his name." "He designed and built the Temple of the Cross ... one of the nicest groups of temples complex and the Mayan world." "350 00:22:30,916 -- 00:22:35,887 Is your memorial and he rises above the palace ... and surpasses the deeds of his father, in any way." "I think I represent a statement of individuality ... that he would their mark on the city .." "as his father had done." "Bahlam Kan ordered the engineers they build ... complicated three buildings, the Temple of the Cross ..." "Puff the Temple of the Cross and the Temple of the Sun" "Engineers Kan Bahlam, would make a giant leap forward ... using sophisticated geometry calculations ... still unknown worldwide ... based on which to create a numerical system." "One of the many forms where the Mayans ..." "They were ahead of their time, was the creation of what we call 'zero'." "With a simple combination a shell ... representing zero, and after a point ... number one and then a 5, only in different positions ... they could multiply and arrived in great numbers." "The Greeks and Romans were great engineers ... theologians, historians and so on ... but were very limited in their mathematical systems ... because they had zero." "It is ironic that would create major public works ... philosophical and everything, but mathematicians were so bad ... compared to Maya." "The observations of the wise Kan Bahlam ... may have included discovering proportions ... as the square root rectangles ... and one thing we know as golden ratio." "Something natural that can be seen in animals, in nature ... and the human body, the proportion of 1 to 1,618." "and the human body, the proportion of 1 to 1,618." "and the navel to the feet, have very similar proportions ... from 1 to 1,618, the golden ratio." "scholars believe that proportion ... has been used in structures for thousands of years ... in places like the pyramids of Giza in Egypt ... and the Parthenon in Greece." "The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo is a study of this proportion." "Say Monalisa has the same right in the face." "Having nothing more than sticks and string ... engineers Kan Bahlam could measure ... the square roots rectangles." "In the Temple of the Cross this form was used ... to mark the two pillars of the facade ... the width of the middle portal and the inner walls." "The golden ratio is cameras in the back and bottom ... whose lower side is 1 and the largest 1,618." "Using square and proportions natural in the Temple of the Cross ..." "The tread design has been gaining fashion and beauty ... full geometry, history mythological and the legacy of the King himself." "However, not all Palenque engineering ... was based on the afterlife." "The architects also focused needs more practice." "One of the names of Palenque is Lacamha ... means "place of many waters"." "There are four rivers flowing Palenque for all year ... dozens of sources, there is water everywhere." "But this wealth also brought problems." "Palenque was surrounded high cliffs ... natural springs and canyons that shaped the entire region ... leaving no more than small flat areas ... suitable construction." "Unlike most the Mayan cities ... the problem was not with Palenque how to store water for dry ... but how to deal with plenty of water." "As you can see, everything here is green, it rains every day." "To face the challenge, they imagined ... a special way of diverting rivers building underground aqueducts ... canalizariam that the water and would save land for cultivation." "The ducts were made limestone ... and covered with our old friend Egypt and Greece ... the vaulted ceiling, a superposition of stones ... forming a kind arc over." "These ceilings were so robust ... that supported the weight of large squares of Palenque." "People strolled with water running under the ground ... diverted from the city, like the place where I live, New York." "The amazing thing is that there are signs ... that architects may have found ... a method of using water pressure." "Constructed water ducts inside the rugged terrain ... sometimes even uphill." "As they approached of large buildings ... ducts were narrowing gradually." "As in Roman sources, water gained strong momentum ... run for the pipeline ever closer ... and so the tap water reached the buildings." "There are amazing systems saunas, pools and aqueducts." "I was then at the height Roman aqueducts." "We see this use of water pressure anywhere else." "And not appear again until Spaniards bring this technology." "Together, Kan Bahlam and Pacal ruled Palenque ... for nearly a hundred years leading to Mayan engineering ... to a level never reached before." "The future looked bright to the beautiful and thriving Palenque ... but its glory days had an abrupt end." "Something happened the Maya world ... that made ?" "her more promising city implode." "In the VIII century Palenque, Tikal and other Maya kingdoms ... were expanding across the continent." "Tall pyramids, vast urbanization and sumptuous palaces ... proclaiming the glory of the great kings." "Suddenly, these cities began to dissolve ... one after the other." "The sculptors stopped creating monuments to tell their story ... and the kings stopped ordering constructions." "The Mayan civilization was plunged into darkness." "Not all that Mayan plain has been dropped from night to day." "Simply a fallen kingdom ... ten years later another fell, and more then one." "The causes of the fall ... are still the subject of much controversy among academics." "It is a society that has reached the limit." "There is no explanation for this implosion ... but scholars believe that an environmental disaster ... led to the end the Mayan civilization." "The land has lost fertility." "The lack of food and polluted water causing malnutrition and disease." "The Mayans could not counting the kings ... to intercede with the gods because society ..." "I was in a vicious circle and the kings before so reliable ... were powerless." "So, sadly and slowly, people began to leave." "The Mayans left their beautiful cities forever." "No sign of mass burials, nobody disappeared." "Where were millions of Mayans?" "The place where things happened was north." ""Go north, young man."" "Cities that have died in the south, is the only way to describe ... fell into oblivion and were never replaced ... but there places throughout the Yucatan Peninsula ... where cities not only thrived, but exploded." "And there arose a sophisticated road network calls "sacbes' ... or white pathways." "Sacbes were not only local transportation ... were emblems of great political power two allied cities ... who had means to create this beautiful link ... between the two kingdoms." "some of these have arrived at 100km ... and were a marvel engineering." "Sat huge stones on both sides of roads ... and the medium filled with pebbles, stones and sand." "Then cover the surface with Mayan stucco ... a good mortar and finally aplanavam the surface." "In Yucatan, the sacbes, that rugged terrain ... offered a course almost always perfectly straight." "It is not easy to make a road 96km that does not deviate nor a degree." "I'd love to know what instruments they used." "There is no record." "The roads allowed growth communication and trade in the north." "There, the sad survivors of the south ... expected to find a second chance ... especially a city called Chichen Itza." "Ltzá Chichén became the largest city, and the most powerful, 800-1050." "She had the reputation of being hospitable." "It was a very cosmopolitan place and I'm sure ... she took advantage of that reputation." "One of his buildings El Caracol was most interesting ... an astronomical observatory." "The Mayans were obsessed Star ... and spent centuries watching the sky in search of answers." "The Mayans were probably something called "noman" ... which was a series cross rods ... and that, when looking the intercession of these bars ... they could focus on something." "With rudimentary tools ..." "Mayans followed the movement of stars and planets ... as well as the passage of time." "Like Stonehenge, this was the place ... where people could make solar and lunar observations." "The front stairs returned up to 27.5 ° north ..." "Diverging from other buildings, but in perfect alignment with Venus ... in its extreme position to the north." "Still aligned with celestial bodies and certain occurrences ... as the path of Venus and solstices." "The highest tower, three openings exist today ... are small, narrow and irregularly situated ... but are perfect for astronomical observations." "At Caracol, we can see the guidelines ... and placements in Strange alignment of buildings ... a focus on what happened Venus at the time." "Venus is a kind variable factor in the heavens." "Sometimes going in one direction, Sometimes to another." "The snail seems to have the function to observe Venus ... when we take into account its movement." "this ingenious astronomical observatory ... allowed the Mayans develop more accurate calendars ... any other the ancient world." "The Mayans had two calendars." "A religious and a solar calendar ... very similar to what we use in the western world." "The Mayans measured the solar year of 365 days ... revolutions of Venus and occurrences of lunar eclipses ... were also observed." "In just 200 years, Mayans were able to recover ... the catastrophic destruction the southern cities." "But now, the north face an even worse enemy ... capable of annihilating the people, but leave intact the cities." "In the ninth century, the Mayan capital ... disintegrated sudden and mysteriously ... ending an era of great prosperity." "When reborn in the north ..." "Maya people had the opportunity to develop ... astronomy and engineering on unprecedented scales." "In Chichen Itza, his obsession by celestial mechanics ... left permanent marks in architecture." "But the cornerstone Chichén Itzá was El Castillo ..." "'The Castle', built between the ninth century and X." "The 365 steps indicated the calendar days." "Side panels 52 each represented the Mayan cycle of 52 years." "And ninefold mirrored the solar calendar of 18 months." "The temple is positioned thought ... so that shadows specific were formed twice a year." "For anyone looking the northwest section of "El Castillo" ... would see the wall a game of shadows ... and the sun beating right there just before sunset." "After several triangles formed." "At the base of that wall ... stood a snake's head, well carved." "A snake coming down from heaven ... and indicating the arrival the rainy season." "The Mayans saw this phenomenon as a manifestation of Kukulkan ... the feathered serpent." "The Mayans could register the equinox ... day of the year in which the night and day are of equal length." "Every year, on March 21, we see the descent of Kukulkan." "Around El Castillo ... civic buildings won new feature ... large spaces." "The square was large, with temples, markets ... sports field and colonnades." "The halls not only housed the festival ... but individuals were brought into the courtyard." "The general public was invited, depending on the occasion ... the square to witness the arrival .." "merchants, traders." "Similar to the Greek or Roman ... these cylindrical columns were the new type of structural support ... forming a large advancement of the Maya." "The advantage of a column ... is that it enables us to sustain flat roofs." "You need not spend all their energy ... in stone buildings ... with vaulted ceilings, maybe crumble." "The columns were simple ... built with large cylinders stacked ... and gravel between one another." "A square block was installed at the top ... and then flat slabs made of plaster and wood ... covered everything to form large interior spaces." "The people involved more openly the life of the building ... with what was happening inside her ... than would be possible with the Mayan pyramids ... in the classical period." "those pyramids were very unique ... formed a high space that the public could not see." "The column structure is much more inviting." "But this warm atmosphere short-lived." "After more than 200 years domain in the Yucatan ..." "Chichén Itzá met similar fate ... to its southern neighbors and ended mysteriously." "When the Spaniards arrived the beaches of the Peninsula in 1517 ... all major cosmopolitan centers had been abandoned." "Nevertheless, the remaining the Mayan people ... who lived in small towns along the inner ... courageously fought the conquerors." "It proved difficult to win because ... instead of capturing a king or an emperor ... as they did with the Aztecs ... they had to conquer one city at a time ... and when to move ahead, the city behind them revolted again." "The brave warriors killed conquerors to thousands ... but their weapons did not contain a worse enemy, disease." "In a hundred years, 90% of the population% New World was decimated." "The few who survived Young suffered persecution." "Friar Diego de Landa arrived from Spain ... to convert the Maya to Christianity ... them and imposed their religion by force." "Diego de Landa was a young idealist ... who came to the New World to try to save souls ... try to convert people to what he called the "true faith"." "But the Maya did not think they should instantly ... reject all beliefs." "The July 12, 1562, Fray Diego organized an act of faith ... and burned the Maya texts, believing that were dictated by the devil." "Was the order of thousands of years accumulated knowledge ... the Mayan civilization:" "One of the greatest tragedies of history." "By a stroke of luck, four volumes survived the fire ... and wear time." "In the nineteenth century, some of these books who managed to escape ... the clutches of Inquisitor priests ... started calling public attention." "Today, the saga of survival ... is another mystery of intricate history of the Maya." "The fact that they were able to maintain an urban civilization ... in the rainforest for 1,500 years ... despite all logistical problems ... and other challenges, is admirable." "We can still learn a lot from this." "Just as the Mayans sought responses on Earth watching the skies ... we seek in the skies looking at Earth." "Recently NASA and the University of New Hampshire ... come using technology remote sensing ... to find out where cities findings can not be." "Hills covered with trees can actually ... be the ruins of ancient cities forgotten and untouched for centuries." "The answer to the Mayan mystery may be under our feet." "The Mayan archeology is just beginning." "There are several cities, several temples ... many villages that still We could not study ... and digging." "I think we are entering the golden era of Mayan archeology." "And I know that the next century ... will be a time she may become ... one of the ancient civilizations most studied." "We know that the Mayans were creative and majestic ... with certain attraction by violence." "But what's the big charm of the Mayans?" "What is the mystique attracts generation after generation ... to study this civilization sophisticated and complex?" "Be yours with beautiful palaces and temples?" "Or hieroglyphics complex and artistic and intriguing writing?" "It will be awesome understanding astronomy and mathematics ... with a zero unparalleled in antiquity?" "Or maybe the power to erect cities, no towns or villages ... but entire towns built in one of the most hostile landscapes in the world?" "In the forests between Honduras and Yucatan ..." "There are literally hundreds and hundreds unspoiled Mayan cities." "Only in Palenque, There are 1,500 buildings .." "that remain unexplored, with higher temples than this." "And if you think of treasures undiscovered archaeological ... in cities like Tikal and Chichen Itza ..." "I'm sure that I'm not alone when I say ... the charm of the Maya, the magic of a civilization ... is the mystery continues buried into the forest." "Peter Weller,for History Channel." "Mahdi_2ndFerdowsi,for Translation"