In northern Guatemala lies a hidden city devoured by the wild, relentless jungle. Local people discovered strange hills arranged in massive circles. Archaeologists realized this was the religious and cultural center of the Mayan Civilization. Some of these ruins are being brought to life with the aid of satellites and a laser scanning technology called LiDAR. In the past year, LiDAR images unveiled an astonishing but hidden jungle metropolis. Homes? highways? defensive walls? pyramids. In all, more than 60,000 structures, their outlines invisible to the naked eye. Taken together, they point to a far more sprawling and sophisticated civilization than we ever imagined possibleand they raise a provocative question: How could such a great society fail?
The Perechú family is afraid that the ancestral costume of their ancestors will disappear, but they ...
Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilizatio...
Investigate the rise and fall of one of the world's most mysterious civilizations.
Extraordinary connection between rare ancient 6,000 year old Sumerian symbols from the mysterious Ma...
The validity of ancient prophecy has been debated for centuries and is one of the most controversial...
This animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.
Long before Columbus, the Maya established one of the most highly developed civilizations of their t...
A look at Palenque's best kept secret: The Red Queen.
A documentary exploring the ruins of a Mayan temple in Mexico and a "cursed" medallion that was foun...
MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simo...
Mixing in-depth excavation work and scientific analysis of the forgotten city of Naachtun, this doc...
One of the great mysteries of history is how the ancient Maya built such an incredible society in a ...
For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops ar...
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal s...
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ...
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death...