The Ancient Maya: Tools of Astronomy 1/5

The Ancient Maya: Tools of Astronomy Part 1

Star-gazing reached incredible heights thousands of years before the Hubble. Learn the amazing advances made by the great ancient culture of Central America.

Take another fascinating trip through time to discover the precursors from centuries or even millennia ago of todays cutting-edge technological breakthroughs. Using the latest scholarship, hands-on demonstrations, and dramatic reenactments, WHERE DID IT COME FROM? shows just how far ahead of their times they really were.

Without the aid of magnifying technology or even a firm idea of where they stood on the planet, the Mayan grasp of the universe through astrological observation was simply stunning.

Host Michael Guillen travels to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to get a firsthand look at the ancient world's most skilled astronomers. Climb the giant pyramid of Kukulkan and see how it functioned as a giant solar observatory. Examine El Caracol at Tikal, which looks amazingly like a modern day observatory. Learn how the Maya used the sun to lay out their various temples and observatories and examine their incredibly complex and accurate calendar.

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[jacobR1377]

my ancestors where the greatest scientist of the ancient world.

[TheNubian100]

The Mayan people have a very beautiful Empire its a sight to see these people have similarties to the Kemet Empire and Sumerians as well Mayans were our GODS

[tomlishon]

i saw a documentary of the mayan's on NATGEO it was quite scary and awesome

[jacobR1377]

@ThePunisherNWO If your trying to upset me with your stupid ass repley your sadly wrong dumb fuck! Go fuck yourself why dont you.Stupid whitetrash. Your either white trash or a stupid spaniard. Which one is it

[ThePunisherNWO]

@jacobR1377

Yet they couldnt use science to defeat the spanish :/

worst scientists...yes absolutely

best.....lol no



[BIAXlD3NT]

@jacobR1377 amen to that brother :D

[thoostorm4]

@jacobR1377 veryuch so

[xewa01]

@jacobR1377 Yes they were. Sadly, the Pedophile-Catholic-Beast-Pries­ts destroyed their culture. I cannot even begin to imagine how much we would know about Mayans. My ancestry is Mexican and wish to God Spaniards had intelectually evolved as the British, French and Germans (Amongst others), who understood the value of foreign cultures, even in spite of their violent Euro-Ethnocentrist nature. Spain had Inquisition until 1835. Ignorant-Pedophile-Sadists as opposed to true "Colonizers"

[thearchitect314]

That slithering serpent thing is extremely intricate and impressive! Think about it? You can't just tell the sun, "hey sun, stop for a second while i take these calculations." Also, this phenomena didn't happen everyday mind you.

[medeltidsdykaren]

If the model was in the simpsons they would prob go... "hmmm... Its just a shadow... Next!" :-)

[Northax]

It was definitely not just a coincidence that this happened. Only people who underestimate the intelligence of the Maya (by way of racist viewpoint) would idiotically ASSume it was just a coincidence, and not intentionally done.

The Maya and other ancient Native American peoples were very intelligent.