Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin

Episode 1

Cradle of the Maya

Sun, Apr 9, 202344 mins

Albert Lin and his NG Lidar team join archaeologists specially interested in the legendary origin of the Maya. Sources in major later royal city Palenque (southern Mexico) describe it as near a split mountain at a large body if water. The surrounding area yields a fitting lake along the main river, with a nearby cenote, in the Lacandon jungle, the home (stretching into Guatemala) of the least hispanized Maya community, which proves eager to help with their local knowledge and proud of new finds. The latter proves -diving into it- a quarry in use since the relevant earliest period of the Maya, containing clues to search nearby. Notably the split mountain proves an ancient city, with astronomical observatories, all most worthy of extensive digs to the 'Maya birth place'.