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So this pyramid-building project must have been carried out
by multiple generations over a span of 1,700 years,
and possibly longer, a fact now acknowledged by archaeologists. Yet modern scholarship knows next to nothing
about the original architects or why they chose to build a pyramid here. Precisely the mysteries
that most interest me. Do you get the sense
that something may be missing from the archaeological
and historical story of ancient Mexico?
by multiple generations over a span of 1,700 years,
and possibly longer, a fact now acknowledged by archaeologists. Yet modern scholarship knows next to nothing
about the original architects or why they chose to build a pyramid here. Precisely the mysteries
that most interest me. Do you get the sense
that something may be missing from the archaeological
and historical story of ancient Mexico?
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So this pyramid-building project
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must have been carried out
by multiple generations
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over a span of 1,700 years,
and possibly longer,
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a fact now acknowledged by archaeologists.
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Yet modern scholarship
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knows next to nothing
about the original architects
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or why they chose to build a pyramid here.
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Precisely the mysteries
that most interest me.
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Do you get the sense
that something may be missing
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from the archaeological
and historical story of ancient Mexico?
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What if everything we know about prehistory is wrong? Journalist Graham Hancock visits archaeological sites around the world investigating if a civilization far more advanced than we ever believed possible existed thousands of yea...