I've done archaeology work in Yucatan, Mexico. I can tell you that just driving on the highways there, you can see Maya ruins literally everywhere. And, I've trudged through some of that dense jungle there. And though it is dense, it's no surprise you can see everything , because a lot of stuff is lower than the tops of the tree canopies. I stood on top of a 40 meter ruined pyramid and could see to the horizon in every direction... and poking through the jungle tree tops were pyramids scattered here and there throughout. The problem is, there isn't enough archaeologist to excavate and consolidate every single Maya site. Their are just too many sites. One site can require an entire career of decades by one archaeologist. I never realized how extensive the Maya culture was, until I was there in person. LIDAR readings will show just that. The culture was vast and there were lots of people living all through Mexico back then. It's truly amazing to see.
Not to mention funding for working a site is extremely limited and it costs even more money to conserve sites once they are worked. And the local government corruption and general lack of wealth. It makes it so many sites are safer being undisturbed for now
@runupcomadres just so we are clear, finding any artifacts, including gold, coins and jewelry, in an archeological site and keeping it is called looting. It's illegal in every country around the world. Just digging around, if you aren't an archeologist, also destroys data that site too. Once you destroy the data, there's no way to get that information back. Never remove anything from an archeological site. That is for scientists to do and document.
Didn't stumble... Definitely NOT a student! LIDAR is cool, click-bait headlines and questionable statements are the bane of new reporting. It totally deflated everything that would have been fascinating about this video.
@@PureMagma Why can’t he be a student? PhD students can easily be in their 30’s. It’s true however that he didn’t discover it and he made that clear. Many people knew it was there. He mentioned that it had been “unremarked” upon, meaning that archaeologists had not gotten around to verifying publicly that an entire city was at this specific location. Proof is needed for such a declaration and LiDAR has provided the initial proof. The site may never be fully documented because recent findings show that “undiscovered” ancient villages, towns, and cities are all over Central and South America. If anything is remarkable it’s the true and horrible scope of the devastation of entire cultures by Spanish explorers, soldiers and, of course, the priests of the Catholic Church. They managed in a relatively short time to devastate TWO large Central and South American cultures - the Mayans and the Aztecs. Protestant England “took care of” the indigenous cultures of America until the Revolution and then newly minted “Americans” did the rest. I suppose we shouldn’t forget France in Eastern Canada. Don’t get me started on the many millions of people killed or forced into slavery by the English, Dutch, Belgian, French and German colonizers of Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia…………. . If I had to choose the worst of these - it’s a close call - it would be the atrocities of the Belgians in the Belgian Congo. We have photos of the more modern wholesale depravity of White Europeans in these areas.
1:11 The twelve year old water boy Hussein Abdel Rasoul while delivering earthern jugs of water and securing them in the sand and hearing a distinct thud brushed the sand aside.and rediscovered the first step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamun. He rushed back to camp to where he informed Howard Carter who had been excavating in the area for the past eight years of what he had found. The rest is history.
This video was absolutely fascinating. Thanks for such a great interview and report. Mr. Auld-Thomas seems like a very capable PHD candidate. I wish him all the best. Thanks again for the video.
As many other ancient archaeological sites in Mexico, "Valeriana City" was already known by the locals, but they pretty much kept it a secret to reserve its treasures for their use. Hopefully, after its discovery, the local government will take better care to preserve whatever remains of its treasures and not continue enriching the shelves of American collectors. Cheers
And suddenly, the secrecy makes sense. Local inhabitants knew quite well it was there; it took someone literally hundreds of miles away to “see” it, although it was well-known to exist. Generations of antiquities-collectors have been taking advantage of the site; those days may be numbered
He literally already said that and mentioned the government didn’t know about, but now does. It’ll be up to them to decide what happens to the sites “treasures.” He’s not robbing them of anything by sharing his findings with Mexico. 🙄
Great conversation....Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge, and look forward to the area being cleared and explored...Amazing surprise! Congratulations....
America was so heavily populated before the arrival of Europeans, I am not surprised. Mexican cities had more people living there than London or Paris.
@@andypanda4756 *WHAT NEW THING CALLED HISTORY?"THEIR HISTORY" THAT EUROPEANS WROTE IN THEIR BOOKS WITH LIES,ACUSING MY MEXICAN ANTECESSORS OF NOT BEING CIVILIZIED SO THEY CAN COVER THE ABUSE,THE BURGLAR AND MURDERS THEY COMITED?I DONT BELIEVE YOUR HISTORY.DONT COME UP WITH THOSE LIES.WE HAVE OTHER HISTORY IN MEXICO AND THATS NOT YOUR LIES*
Wow, what an incredible discovery! The fact that Valeriana, a lost Mayan city, was hidden in plain sight for so long is mind-blowing. Huge kudos to Luke Auld Thomas and his team for using LiDAR technology to uncover not just ruins but an entire city that’s been waiting to be rediscovered for centuries. It’s amazing how technology and curiosity can work together to rewrite history like this. Also love that they’re working with local communities and INAH to preserve and study the site. This isn’t just about finding ancient cities but understanding how people lived, worked, and thrived in the past. Can't wait to see what other discoveries might come next! 🙌
LIDAR is an absolute godsend to archaeologists. There are going to be to be probably hundreds in just Mexico and Guatemala and Belize, not to mention Egypt and other countries with rich ancient civilizations. I think this one of the most exciting technologies ever for archaeologists and history in general. Amazing future coming. If I were a young, college-age person now, *this* is what I would want to be doing.
I know the mexicans have other more pressing concerns... but holy cow if i lived where i could take hikes and find ANCIENT RUINS UNSEEN FOR CENTURIES thats all id be doing except for procuring food and sleep
its full of snakes, spiders, jaguars, bobcats, mountain lions, carnivore monkeys piranhas in the water poisonous plants. u better be ready for all of that. not to mention randon cartel labs
This is so exciting, but we have stuff like this here at home in the USA! I live on one such site, but do not have the means to hire professional help. I would love for an archaeologist that has interest in this to come for a visit!
There is a real threat now of people travelling to this site and stealing from it.putting the location on social media is making these crime's more frequent.the loss of many of these historical sites can never be estimated.most of the criminals who pillage these sites for monetary gain care nothing for the value of them for future posterity.
Sorry but this is not news. We, the Mexican people, know there are hundreds, if not more, cities buried by time. Anywhere you go you'll see mountains and more often than not turn out to be pyramids or other edifications from our ancient past. The government in the past was not that interested in spending the amount it would take to uncover them all so they went as they were but the population knows they are there. Doesn't matter what part of Mexico you go to either, they're nation wide. But now foreigners with more money and technological equipment are "discovering lost cities"! This is one of the reasons no one wanted the hated "Maya Train" in Yucatan, the destruction done there is criminal!
Ok, we all understand what you are saying. In this interview, they checked with the Mexican government, and this very large city had not been logged (ie no records) with the Mexican government. Any further discoveries there will be handled by the Mexican government. The point isn’t whether the average person knew it was there, but had it been logged with the government. Therefore discovered in the Mexican scientific community. This is an important first step in getting funding for the local people. UNESCO world heritage site potential etc. This is an important part of Mexican history. To me it sounds like you are downplaying your own history.
@smoothy42 no. They are PROTECTING their history. History never remains truthful or preserved in yt hands. That's the point. Not everything needs to be accessible or even meant for YOU. Leave them and their land alone. They'll take better care of it, and clearly have been before Christopher 2.0 Colombus here.
How are we still finding massive cities hidden? We think we are densely populated now? Looks like the ancients may have been as well at one point or another .
I got goosebumps, I think the drones that kept showing up in NYC were using a much newer technology a more advanced Lidar technology that can penetrate deeper into the ground like a sonar and map out tunnels passageways and buildings underneath the earth.
I live in the Sierra occidental mountains of western Jalisco. There are so many petroglyphs and primitive metates everywhere. I would love to know if there is any lidar available for this area.
Why is it only (generally white) Western individuals get credit for discovering Native sites and relics? The local people have known about this and 'countless' others for generations ... remember and respect that it was built by indigenous humans whose cultural achievements deserve a measure of consideration even 'surviving' the march of time and conflicts of change 🌎🌏🌍
WHERE IS THE "BY ACCIDENT" PART? IS HE A PHD STUDENT BY ACCIDENT? DID HE ACCIDENTALLY RESEARCH THE LIDAR MAPS? DID HE ACCIDENTALLY FIND HIS STORY TWISTED TO CRAP ON "USA TODAY"!?
He didn’t know what he was going to find once he was using the scientific tools. I think that is pretty easy to understand. The same way you don’t know what you’re going to find tomorrow at the supermarket, you have a broad idea, still you don’t know if they imported some fancy new product from another country. Simple.
As a native born Mexican, I can tell you that local Mexicans already knew of this existence. Our ancestors gave us this gift, not this random American man.
No exageres. Los arqueologos y gente de la comunidad ya sabian de esto. Esto que aplaudes, solo le va a general dinero al estudiante graduado y no a la comunidad. This PhD student will get moolah from grants and a postdoc, and the indigenous communities will see zilch of "this discovery that is a great gift to our country".
They were never lost, just forgotten. Just like The Tribes Of Anahuac, many have forgotten who they really are, misguided by foreign ways and beliefs. They only need to be reminded, and set back on their proper path.
Sorry to break the bubble, but these cities aren't lost. Scholars and archeologists from the United States always claim they discovered a city in the jungle. Archeologists in Mexico and most of all the people in these communities known these places very well. And even though they talked to INAH, the indigenous communities know these places very well. Please respect the indigenous communities and don't claim a discovery.
I wrote a story when I was ten, from a dream. In it, I found an ancient ruined civilization in western Venezuela. I've always wanted to do a liar search i the area....
Just because it wasn't registered doesn't mean it was there for the taking. Or that only scientific communities can be experts on the sites. Why not ask the people around the area first? If no one absolutely no one cared to share that knowledge than I could understand only a little bit.
Did you ever notice that abandoned places are quickly overrun with vegetation if it's allowed to happen? Of course the jungle has no respect for man made anything!
He did not discover / find it. The comunity living there already knew itvwas there. Its theirs, they knew! Someone had reported it before. He did not discover it!
Just because it wasn't registered doesn't mean it was there for the taking. Or that only scientific communities can be experts on the sites. Why not ask the people around the area first? If no one absolutely no one cared to share that knowledge then I could understand only a little right now it just seems like another discoverist. If only he would have talked about the actual discovery not how he took it. It's time I search the people to teach me.
I've done archaeology work in Yucatan, Mexico. I can tell you that just driving on the highways there, you can see Maya ruins literally everywhere. And, I've trudged through some of that dense jungle there. And though it is dense, it's no surprise you can see everything , because a lot of stuff is lower than the tops of the tree canopies. I stood on top of a 40 meter ruined pyramid and could see to the horizon in every direction... and poking through the jungle tree tops were pyramids scattered here and there throughout. The problem is, there isn't enough archaeologist to excavate and consolidate every single Maya site. Their are just too many sites. One site can require an entire career of decades by one archaeologist. I never realized how extensive the Maya culture was, until I was there in person. LIDAR readings will show just that. The culture was vast and there were lots of people living all through Mexico back then. It's truly amazing to see.
Not to mention funding for working a site is extremely limited and it costs even more money to conserve sites once they are worked. And the local government corruption and general lack of wealth. It makes it so many sites are safer being undisturbed for now
Can anybody go search and explore the ones not yet discover and find gold and keep it????
Colonist!@runupcomadres
@runupcomadres no.
@runupcomadres just so we are clear, finding any artifacts, including gold, coins and jewelry, in an archeological site and keeping it is called looting. It's illegal in every country around the world. Just digging around, if you aren't an archeologist, also destroys data that site too. Once you destroy the data, there's no way to get that information back. Never remove anything from an archeological site. That is for scientists to do and document.
This was a lovely interview. Thank you for letting him talk and share his discovery with no interruptions. ❤
He didn’t “stumble” onto it. How insulting. He’s a trained archaeologist using digital tools. He researched it and discovered it using his training.
Didn't stumble... Definitely NOT a student! LIDAR is cool, click-bait headlines and questionable statements are the bane of new reporting. It totally deflated everything that would have been fascinating about this video.
She makes that clear at 1:15, then gives him the opportunity to explain his exact process, in depth, without interrupting.
He seems ok with the "insult"
@@PureMagma Why can’t he be a student? PhD students can easily be in their 30’s. It’s true however that he didn’t discover it and he made that clear. Many people knew it was there. He mentioned that it had been “unremarked” upon, meaning that archaeologists had not gotten around to verifying publicly that an entire city was at this specific location. Proof is needed for such a declaration and LiDAR has provided the initial proof. The site may never be fully documented because recent findings show that “undiscovered” ancient villages, towns, and cities are all over Central and South America.
If anything is remarkable it’s the true and horrible scope of the devastation of entire cultures by Spanish explorers, soldiers and, of course, the priests of the Catholic Church. They managed in a relatively short time to devastate TWO large Central and South American cultures - the Mayans and the Aztecs. Protestant England “took care of” the indigenous cultures of America until the Revolution and then newly minted “Americans” did the rest. I suppose we shouldn’t forget France in Eastern Canada.
Don’t get me started on the many millions of people killed or forced into slavery by the English, Dutch, Belgian, French and German colonizers of Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia…………. . If I had to choose the worst of these - it’s a close call - it would be the atrocities of the Belgians in the Belgian Congo. We have photos of the more modern wholesale depravity of White Europeans in these areas.
He did not stuble on that it was already there 😂 Thats like saying Columbus stubled upon the New World ... Yeah no shit 😂
1:11 The twelve year old water boy Hussein Abdel Rasoul while delivering earthern jugs of water and securing them in the sand and hearing a distinct thud brushed the sand aside.and rediscovered the first step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
He rushed back to camp to where he informed Howard Carter who had been excavating in the area for the past eight years of what he had found.
The rest is history.
Really??? Incredible!!
Fascinating! He could be a teacher. I could listen to him talk forever. Very well-spoken and knowledgeable.
Funny, I just saw your comment. We said the same thing%!
This video was absolutely fascinating. Thanks for such a great interview and report. Mr. Auld-Thomas seems like a very capable PHD candidate. I wish him all the best. Thanks again for the video.
Thanks for bringing this out and letting him talk about his research interests.
As many other ancient archaeological sites in Mexico, "Valeriana City" was already known by the locals, but they pretty much kept it a secret to reserve its treasures for their use. Hopefully, after its discovery, the local government will take better care to preserve whatever remains of its treasures and not continue enriching the shelves of American collectors. Cheers
And suddenly, the secrecy makes sense. Local inhabitants knew quite well it was there; it took someone literally hundreds of miles away to “see” it, although it was well-known to exist. Generations of antiquities-collectors have been taking advantage of the site; those days may be numbered
Exactly!
He literally already said that and mentioned the government didn’t know about, but now does. It’ll be up to them to decide what happens to the sites “treasures.” He’s not robbing them of anything by sharing his findings with Mexico. 🙄
Great conversation....Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge, and look forward to the area being cleared and explored...Amazing surprise! Congratulations....
EXACTLY
Thank you Dana and USA Today for some good science journalism.
Amazing! Luke, much success in all that you do.
Thank you for a really interesting interview Dana! More please :)
America was so heavily populated before the arrival of Europeans, I am not surprised. Mexican cities had more people living there than London or Paris.
*How do u know?Were u living with them?...😂*
@mrefrainjimenezify There's this new thing called history. LOL
@@andypanda4756 *WHAT NEW THING CALLED HISTORY?"THEIR HISTORY" THAT EUROPEANS WROTE IN THEIR BOOKS WITH LIES,ACUSING MY MEXICAN ANTECESSORS OF NOT BEING CIVILIZIED SO THEY CAN COVER THE ABUSE,THE BURGLAR AND MURDERS THEY COMITED?I DONT BELIEVE YOUR HISTORY.DONT COME UP WITH THOSE LIES.WE HAVE OTHER HISTORY IN MEXICO AND THATS NOT YOUR LIES*
The same thing is happening in the Amazon Jungle and there are huge cities and stuff covered in jungle there too.
Yes, this is true. Personally the South America is more interesting to me, for many reasons. 😊
Wow, what an incredible discovery! The fact that Valeriana, a lost Mayan city, was hidden in plain sight for so long is mind-blowing. Huge kudos to Luke Auld Thomas and his team for using LiDAR technology to uncover not just ruins but an entire city that’s been waiting to be rediscovered for centuries. It’s amazing how technology and curiosity can work together to rewrite history like this.
Also love that they’re working with local communities and INAH to preserve and study the site. This isn’t just about finding ancient cities but understanding how people lived, worked, and thrived in the past. Can't wait to see what other discoveries might come next! 🙌
LIDAR is an absolute godsend to archaeologists. There are going to be to be probably hundreds in just Mexico and Guatemala and Belize, not to mention Egypt and other countries with rich ancient civilizations. I think this one of the most exciting technologies ever for archaeologists and history in general. Amazing future coming. If I were a young, college-age person now, *this* is what I would want to be doing.
Bravo to him. That’s really impressive.
locals have always known about it 🤣
He did not find anything. The local comunity already knew it because its their culture!
I know the mexicans have other more pressing concerns... but holy cow if i lived where i could take hikes and find ANCIENT RUINS UNSEEN FOR CENTURIES thats all id be doing except for procuring food and sleep
its full of snakes, spiders, jaguars, bobcats, mountain lions, carnivore monkeys piranhas in the water poisonous plants. u better be ready for all of that. not to mention randon cartel labs
Everyone knew about the existence of this and more ruins in the area, only you believe that this guy found them now
You have to get permission. You don't get to just hike around.
You need to check an aztec and maya history....... this is not new to them. Its new to YOU
PBS please turn his discovery into an episode of Nova!
He didn't discover the ruins. He had it registered as an archaeological site .
Can't wait to see more about this exciting discovery!
This is so exciting, but we have stuff like this here at home in the USA!
I live on one such site, but do not have the means to hire professional help. I would love for an archaeologist that has interest in this to come for a visit!
Excellent Interview, thank you❤
Bro really called it a side project for him 😂
Bro, bro, bro bro
Curious minds want to know. Why is your book shelf empty?!
Probably he chose to be interviewed at an empty office rather than his own to avoid being interrupted by people knocking on his door.
😂 I thought I was the only one that was wondering about the empty shelves??
Minimalism 😂
Dana, great story..
Great interview. Thorough. I learned so much.
There is a real threat now of people travelling to this site and stealing from it.putting the location on social media is making these crime's more frequent.the loss of many of these historical sites can never be estimated.most of the criminals who pillage these sites for monetary gain care nothing for the value of them for future posterity.
Sorry but this is not news. We, the Mexican people, know there are hundreds, if not more, cities buried by time. Anywhere you go you'll see mountains and more often than not turn out to be pyramids or other edifications from our ancient past. The government in the past was not that interested in spending the amount it would take to uncover them all so they went as they were but the population knows they are there. Doesn't matter what part of Mexico you go to either, they're nation wide. But now foreigners with more money and technological equipment are "discovering lost cities"! This is one of the reasons no one wanted the hated "Maya Train" in Yucatan, the destruction done there is criminal!
Ok, we all understand what you are saying. In this interview, they checked with the Mexican government, and this very large city had not been logged (ie no records) with the Mexican government. Any further discoveries there will be handled by the Mexican government. The point isn’t whether the average person knew it was there, but had it been logged with the government. Therefore discovered in the Mexican scientific community. This is an important first step in getting funding for the local people. UNESCO world heritage site potential etc. This is an important part of Mexican history. To me it sounds like you are downplaying your own history.
@smoothy42 no. They are PROTECTING their history. History never remains truthful or preserved in yt hands. That's the point. Not everything needs to be accessible or even meant for YOU. Leave them and their land alone. They'll take better care of it, and clearly have been before Christopher 2.0 Colombus here.
Mexico needs more mexican archeologists. Has to be a foreigner the one who discover it
@@oscaralegre3683 I agree!
@smoothy42 Mexico is a paradise for archeologists. They must encourage their people to be archeologists.
This is an incredible discovery.
How are we still finding massive cities hidden? We think we are densely populated now? Looks like the ancients may have been as well at one point or another .
I got goosebumps, I think the drones that kept showing up in NYC were using a much newer technology a more advanced Lidar technology that can penetrate deeper into the ground like a sonar and map out tunnels passageways and buildings underneath the earth.
I live in the Sierra occidental mountains of western Jalisco. There are so many petroglyphs and primitive metates everywhere. I would love to know if there is any lidar available for this area.
What's your town's name? I've been to Jalisco many times... And love the Sierra because of the raicilla.
He’s so composed and professional. I would be like, “Dude!!! I found a city!!!”
Fascinating and very well presented here.
I love it when Euro-centrists "discover" things that local people have lived with and known about all of their lives.
Great interview. Very interesting.
I worked on a LiDAR system once.
It was pretty cool.
@@mellissadalby1402 wow Melissa you once worked on a liDAR,,,
Did you get anything from it,use it to find anything? That would be pretty cooler,,,!
This is an amazing use of data 👏🏻
these ancient cities are everywhere. But they're totally overgrown. The only thing left is rubble. Very very old, lots of history to discover
I love Lidar,it's so interesting to look at.
See, being smart has advantages.
If the person had been Clueless or Dumb/Dumber, they would have mistaken the city for a Dead Mall.
This was very interesting. Thank you!
Why is it only (generally white) Western individuals get credit for discovering Native sites and relics?
The local people have known about this and 'countless' others for generations ... remember and respect that it was built by indigenous humans whose cultural achievements deserve a measure of consideration even 'surviving' the march of time and conflicts of change 🌎🌏🌍
Excellent! Exciting! Interesting! ❤
WHERE IS THE "BY ACCIDENT" PART?
IS HE A PHD STUDENT BY ACCIDENT?
DID HE ACCIDENTALLY RESEARCH THE LIDAR MAPS?
DID HE ACCIDENTALLY FIND HIS STORY TWISTED TO CRAP ON "USA TODAY"!?
He didn’t know what he was going to find once he was using the scientific tools. I think that is pretty easy to understand. The same way you don’t know what you’re going to find tomorrow at the supermarket, you have a broad idea, still you don’t know if they imported some fancy new product from another country.
Simple.
Congratulations on your discovery 🎉✨. As a Mexican I thank you for this great gift you’v given to my birth country.
As a native born Mexican, I can tell you that local Mexicans already knew of this existence. Our ancestors gave us this gift, not this random American man.
No exageres. Los arqueologos y gente de la comunidad ya sabian de esto. Esto que aplaudes, solo le va a general dinero al estudiante graduado y no a la comunidad. This PhD student will get moolah from grants and a postdoc, and the indigenous communities will see zilch of "this discovery that is a great gift to our country".
Give him that phD
good information, thank you
PhD student, already turning grey. It's a long road taken for love of discovery.
He "discovered" something that the locals already knew it was there 😂
He found it ????? Hmmm weird- natives there have known for years of this place existence!!!!!!!
FINALLY… a PhD pays off, even if it was an accident!❤ Yaaaay PhD student.
Go Tulane Anthropology! Very good department.
Awesome 🎉
Locals knew it was there... They just didn't want you turning the place into a Six Flags.
Fascinating!
I'm starting to feel like mexico was the center beginning of civilization. you're welcome, rest of the world
How amazing. ❤
Congratulations Luke.
Can't wait for Barnhart to talk about this.
Full lidar survey will throw up too much stuff they don’t want you to see
Surely the locals know it is there! No discovery but for the West. Come on!!!
No PICTURES DANG NABIT!!
Good that he is working with the local institutions. Let's hope their internal colonialism isn't worst than European colonialism
They were never lost, just forgotten. Just like The Tribes Of Anahuac, many have forgotten who they really are, misguided by foreign ways and beliefs. They only need to be reminded, and set back on their proper path.
No pics??
That’s pretty amazing
They say in the jungles in the Cancun area there are 800 temples,cities etc. so finding one actually is not a Miracle.
Well done young man.
Amazing.
It's really about the thrill of discovery.
Very excited. Congratulations.
A concern that should be noted, if the entire land of Mexico and southern parts get LiDar and made to the public. That might open it up to scavengers.
Sorry to break the bubble, but these cities aren't lost. Scholars and archeologists from the United States always claim they discovered a city in the jungle. Archeologists in Mexico and most of all the people in these communities known these places very well. And even though they talked to INAH, the indigenous communities know these places very well. Please respect the indigenous communities and don't claim a discovery.
I wrote a story when I was ten, from a dream. In it, I found an ancient ruined civilization in western Venezuela. I've always wanted to do a liar search i the area....
Fascinating
Was there an 'interstate highway' connecting all the suburbs?
Never once showed us the site…🤦🏻♂️
There are melted old world ruins in Australia that no one talks about
Not a single photograph for this news article 💁♂️
They don't even know how to "news" anymore
shit dude, I smoked a jaunt there in 97, on top of one of the "platforms"
At least pictures would have been welcome
please move camera up so i cant see up your nose,...love
How can the govt. protect these vast archeological areas? This worries me.
Just because it wasn't registered doesn't mean it was there for the taking. Or that only scientific communities can be experts on the sites. Why not ask the people around the area first? If no one absolutely no one cared to share that knowledge than I could understand only a little bit.
Did you ever notice that abandoned places are quickly overrun with vegetation if it's allowed to happen? Of course the jungle has no respect for man made anything!
I feel like he didn’t discover anything. The scientists before him did.
Then there is the 'Desert Drifter" on u-tube exploring. 😳
He did not discover / find it. The comunity living there already knew itvwas there. Its theirs, they knew! Someone had reported it before. He did not discover it!
How do you know it's Mayan? I'd be interested if any pre Younger-Dryas ruins can be found
Can they use this technology to find illegal large burial grounds of missing people in Mexico?
Congratulations!
I was there when I was 20 years old with out lightdar jade some gold, its already been looted
Too much face, and zero LIDAR photos may indicate weak proof of the discovery.
I was hoping for photos too.
I was thinking the same thing. 👍
He didn’t “find” anything - I have lived in Mexico there are ruins literally everywhere…
That thing looks like the Love child of CarrotTop and Beetlejuice
???
Be curious
So cool 😎 😍 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤i wanted to be him when i was a kid 😅😢🎉❤!
you can just put a pin on a map anywhere and find a lost city
Why do you pronounce the P in excerpt? It's silent like the B in debt.
No carnivorous plant though! Whew!
A few clicks away? Weird term, like war
Or a computer mouse. Lol
Just because it wasn't registered doesn't mean it was there for the taking. Or that only scientific communities can be experts on the sites. Why not ask the people around the area first? If no one absolutely no one cared to share that knowledge then I could understand only a little right now it just seems like another discoverist. If only he would have talked about the actual discovery not how he took it. It's time I search the people to teach me.