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Lost Treasures of the Maya

If he can read any carvings, it could reveal cluesto the entire site

If he can read any carvings, it could reveal clues
to the entire site

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If he can read any carvings,
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it could reveal clues to the entire site.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:58
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary, history
Production
Frederick Productions,Boxoffice International Pictures (BIP)

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Movie Summary

A new "treasure map" of the Maya world is transforming what we thought we knew of one of the world most mysterious ancient civilizations
S01 • E04 We're in the middle of a ball court at Xunantunich. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
We're in the middle of a ball court at Xunantunich.
S01 • E04 The aim was to get a ball - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
The aim was to get a ball
S01 • E01 The kinds of rituals that were involved here are difficult to imagine. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
The kinds of rituals that were involved here are difficult t...
S01 • E02 The Maya were obsessive recorders of names, places and dates, - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:12
The Maya were obsessive recorders of names, places and dates...
S01 • E01 Rituals that in other sites involve burning - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:07
Rituals that in other sites involve burning
S01 • E01 Torture and death were fundamental to Maya belief. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
Torture and death were fundamental to Maya belief.
S01 • E03 You see a city that's connected to its landscape. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:04
You see a city that's connected to its landscape.
S01 • E04 One of the captive losers would be sacrificed to the gods. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
One of the captive losers would be sacrificed to the gods.
S01 • E02 But their glyph writing is still only partially understood, - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:09
But their glyph writing is still only partially understood,
S01 • E01 On sacred altars, ceremonies would be held - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:08
On sacred altars, ceremonies would be held
S01 • E03 Before the LiDAR, no one knew how connected - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:07
Before the LiDAR, no one knew how connected
S01 • E01 Guatemalan archaeologist Alejandro Gonzalez - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:07
Guatemalan archaeologist Alejandro Gonzalez
S01 • E03 There's this road that's coming out, north-west. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:06
There's this road that's coming out, north-west.
S01 • E04 Beneath the ball court at Xunantunich, - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:06
Beneath the ball court at Xunantunich,
S01 • E03 And this other one, it looks like there might be - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:06
And this other one, it looks like there might be
S01 • E02 Unless it's all hieroglyphic, which I don't think. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:04
Unless it's all hieroglyphic, which I don't think.
S01 • E01 A bit nervous, a bit anxious - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
A bit nervous, a bit anxious
S01 • E02 So there's definitely carving on the bottom of this monument. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
So there's definitely carving on the bottom of this mon...
S01 • E04 Carvings of scorpions - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
Carvings of scorpions
S01 • E01 It’s the biggest monument we have yet to move out of the site. - Lost Treasures of the Maya 00:05
It’s the biggest monument we have yet to move out of the sit...