Tikal Project Maya

[The One]

Due to its inaccessible location in the jungles of the Petén, Guatemala, the great Maya city of Tikal was only briefly visited by explorers until the Museum organized a large-scale project of excavation and restoration with the assistance of the Guatemalan government. Beginning in 1956, under the successive leadership of Edwin Shook, Robert H. Dyson, Jr., and William R. Coe, archaeological investigations cleared many of the important buildings and revealed the dynastic, architectural, and settlement history of one of the most important Maya cities.

http://www.archive.org/details/upenn-f16-0523_1959_Tikal

1956-62 Tikal Pyramids - Tikal Project http://www.archive.org/details/upenn-f16-0475_1956-62_Tikal

Go to this link for the full Tikal Expedition Collection on Maya wow
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=tikal%20project%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies

NO SOUND SORRY

[blufire]

I spent a significant amount of time in Tikal about five years ago.

It is stunning and awe inspiring. I want to go back and stay months, if not years.

The area is very dangerous though to nonindigenous people . . . the small group I was with had private protection from the Guatemalan military. Partly because we had the fortune to arrive there a week after Mel Gibson had finished filming Apocalypto and the military was very prominent at the time in the area.

We also had the good fortune that our guide and instructor had been personally trained by Dr. Richard D. Hanson, who was Gibson’s expert technical advisor. He is a prominent American archaeologist and currently the senior scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research.

I would like to comment that because of my time in Belize and Guatemala and specifically with the Mayan people I never heard the “New Age” rhetoric that I hear so many times in books, videos and even here on PA in relation to 2012. The information on the Mayan Calendar and their history has been misrepresented and colored with individual agenda.

I mean come on people . . . . we can’t even keep our own history straight with a 50 year span. How we can even begin to think that anyone can accurately interrupt a complex history as the Mesoamerican people is beyond me.

[mosquito]

I went to Guatemala in 200 and celebrated new year with the Mayans and other indigenous people from the Americas. One of the highlights of the trip was visiting Tikal, breathtaking, awe-inspiring.
The Mayan elders and timekepers know their own culture far better than Western anthropologists who, in my view, merely hijack the Mayan calendar in order to support their own agendas.

[enfoldedblue]

In 1996 my friend and I slept on top of one of the amazing pyramids at Tikal. WHat a night!! The only drag was having to bribe the guards to let us stay...oh and sleeping on rock was not so comfortable. Otherwise what a magic, once in a lifetime experience! The energy was amazing, and waking up to seeing the mist roll over the jungle below was awesome. What an incredible spot!!

[meeradas]

Lucky bunch you are [and you know it, that's good].