At the height of its glory, this mysterious civilization ruled a territory of 125,000 square miles across parts of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. What began as a modest population of hunters and gatherers expanded into more than forty flourishing city-states who engineered sky-high temple-pyramids, ornate palaces and advanced hydraulic systems. Where did they come from and what catastrophes caused the collapse of this innovative civilization? From the Temple-Pyramids at Tikal, to the royal tomb at Palenque, to the star observatory at Chichen Itza, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure that enabled the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization.
T**S
Five Stars
Great video.
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Buildings and Their Mayan Creators
Not much is known about the Ancient Maya, so I always worry that any documentary on that group will just say the same stuff. Luckily, I was wrong here. The series about architecture, so that's the (informative) angle here.One expert said the Maya knew about wheels, but culuturally like things that involved lots of human labor. This work mention a golden mean device: it has nothing to do with mediocrity; it was more like pi, a 1 to 1.618 ratio. The Maya had underground aqueducts; they compared to the Romans.The CGI here is great; the reenactments are strong too. They didn't translate that one king's crypt like was done in "Breaking the Maya Code." I would have liked that, but again the focus was engineering. Astonomy is given a lot of emphasis here as well. Not only where the sun and moon important to that culture, but the planet Venus was too.I kinda wonder would this be a great doc to see alongside Gibson's "Apocalypto."
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