Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin
Albert Lin adventures to the ends of the earth, using advanced technology to strip back the layers of time, and reveal ancient Lost Cities.
- 2023-2023
- 1 season
- National Geographic
- Documentary, Action & Adventure
Albert Lin adventures to the ends of the earth, using advanced technology to strip back the layers of time, and reveal ancient Lost Cities.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Cradle of the Maya
Sun, Apr 9, 2023 44 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'.
Episode 2
The Warrior Kings
Thu, Nov 23, 2023 44 mins
Albert Lin travels to deserts of Sudan to search for a forgotten kingdom.
Episode 3
The Cloud Warriors
Thu, Nov 30, 2023 44 mins
Albert and his team of drone tech and local archaeologists look for the Chachapoya, a northern Peruvian cloud jungle hills people predating the Inca about a millennium, known for their citadel Kuèlap, even larger then Machu Pichu, possible the largest single site in South America. The Chachapoya culture, known as 'Cloud warriors', was eliminated by the Inca empire after a 60 years war. Albert wonders what existed around the capital, and soon cliff burial sites with stone funeral portraits and sarcophagi at Carajia, still no dwelling. Having consulted a local presumed descendant, he gets clues to a legendary city Huajaiquil, and using liar technology his team discovers an intricate network of hill roads, enabling sophisticated trade, and an Inca guard post bordering their many tiny dwellings all along, which enthusiastic archaeologists will be studying for many years, while Indios proudly welcome discovering their Ancient roots.
Episode 4
The Barbarian Kingdom
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 44 mins
Albert Lin is in Scotland, searching for an ancient Barbarian Kingdom.
Episode 5
The Rise of the Canaanites
Thu, Dec 14, 2023 44 mins
Albert teams up with his Lidar tech men and archaeological specialists in search of the Canaanite civilization, which is barely unknown but mentioned in the Bible as descendants of one of Noah's grandsons. A century-long mega-drought about 4000 BC smashed the Middle Eastern cultures, but they were created by the arrival of climate refugees from inner regions to the coast of and near present Israel. Diving they find a Bronze Age anchor of a type known from Cyprus, some pottery and conclude, after Lidar scans of the then lower sea level suggesting basins offered natural ports; the Cannanites survived by turning to the sea and international Mediterranean trade, which made them more resilient in case of failing harvests. Next the team turns inland, to a presumed Canaanite 'watch tower' height near Jaffa, where the find a palace on a mountain, and Lidar reveals it's part of a surprisingly large walled city, presumably a rich 'metropolitan' multicultural trade center.
Episode 6
Miracle in the Desert
Thu, Dec 21, 2023 44 mins
Albert Lin explores Oman in search of the legendary Land of Magan.