Dr. Richard Hansen: Lost Tombs of the Snake Kings

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 16 June 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Expedition Unknown: Legend of The Snake King Expedition Unknown chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates iconic mysteries across the globe. Gates begins by interviewing key eyewitnesses and uncovering recent developments in the story, then springboards into a fully immersive exploration.

Legend of the Snake King: Part 1 - 2

Josh Gates and his team join noted archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen on an adventurous quest to the lost-city of El Mirador deep in the Guatemalan rainforest. Their mission: to find the hidden tombs of the mysterious Maya Snake Kings.

Richard D. Hansen is a distinguished American archaeologist and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He previously has been an Affiliate Research Professor and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University and an Associate Scientist (Level IV) at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA. Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya civilization and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in the northern Peten, Guatemala.

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0:00.0	In February of this year the National Geographic published some fantastic new images of the Guatemala Jungle.
0:07.5	Over 800 square miles were scanned using a new technology known as LIDAR. The results were startling.
0:16.4	Over 60,000 settlements, pyramids, complexes, buildings were discovered in the deep jungle of Guatemala.
0:26.6	Today we'll hear from Dr. Richard Hanson, a specialist on Mayan culture and his work in El Meador a portion of the Guatemala
0:36.6	jungle that included the scans from the National Geographic.
0:40.9	We'll also hear from Melissa Tittle on what she believes
0:45.8	are important takeaways from these new discoveries. And Adam Young will present us
0:52.3	new material that you can find on your computer that gives you access to Earth's ancient past.
1:00.0	All this and the news today on Earth Ancients. Please go and
1:15.0	and love, we know all of them. For Saturday, June 16, 2018, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host Cliff Dunning.
1:40.0	Hey, how you doing? Welcome to Earth Ancients. Glad to have you back with us. If you're
1:49.2	joining us for the first time, you're in for quite a bit of fun information on all things ancient
1:56.6	past knowledge that we know about a lot of we a lot of the stuff we just don't
2:01.9	know about and it's it flows freely here on the
2:06.7	program have a lot of excellent people that come on with us each week. And if you are new, go back, go back to previous months, even back to the
2:19.0	beginning if you want. We started in April of 2014 and have been interviewing people now on a regular basis up until today.
2:29.8	So welcome, welcome to the program.
2:33.0	Hey, I really enjoyed my interview with Richard Hanson.
2:37.6	Rich is the foremost minus, I believe, in the world.
2:42.4	He is the director of the El Meador Basin project and is
2:47.2	excavating El Meador itself. I was amazed at some of the photographs that I found just how deep into the Guatemalan
2:58.1	jungle he is.
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