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The Rise and Fall of the Mayas aka Le mystère des Mayas - des origines à la chute Networks: RMC Découverte (FR); Nat Geo (UK) Season One, Episode 1 Civilization Release Date: January, 2020 (France) Air Date: August, 2023 (United Kingdom) 44 min | PG-TV | History Documentary| TV Series (2023 - ..) (ENG/No Subtitles) This series had groundbreaking access to an expedition at Aguada Fenix, which is the oldest and largest Mayan site found to date. Archaeologists discovered the ruins, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, in 2020 through LIDAR technology. Season 1, Episode 01 – In June 2020, a scientific and archaeological discovery calls into question the certainties we had about the origins of the great Maya civilization. Thanks to LIDAR technology, which consists in sending light pulses to the ground, and thus revealing the reliefs buried under the densest vegetation, the oldest and largest Maya site is discovered: Aguada Fenix, a monumental structure 3000 years old, in the heart of ancient Maya territory. In this episode, we follow in exclusive access a team of archaeologists, scientists, and biologists, working on this site. The discovery of this structure immerses them in the traces of the origins of the first Mayas. Because the architecture of Aguada Fenix is as immense as it is unexpected: one and a half kilometers long and four hundred meters wide, it is fifteen meters high. It is finally dated to more than a thousand years before the first golden age of this civilization. A temporal inconsistency #RMCDécouverte #France #NationalGeographic #NatGeo #UnitedKingdom #Documentary #History@zdenek1964 #History@britblood #TheRiseAndFallOfTheMayas #LeMystèreDesMayasDesOriginesàlachute
