Name: The Secrets of El Castillo | Buried Truth of the Maya
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T03:05:55.000Z
Duration: 3 min 48 s
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I'm thinking about how many thousands of stones

NARRATOR: Kenny Broad is a National Geographic

MAN: I would describe Kenny Broad as a mad scientist.

NARRATOR: As an expert caver, he and Memo

may be able to add crucial insight on how to access

KENNY BROAD: Being involved in a new discovery,

it gives you this feeling that you're doing something

NARRATOR: While there are no portals to the underworld

on the ground floor, they hike up to a sacred chamber, which

MEMO: Yeah, this is where the king used to sit.

KENNY BROAD: So the king used to sit here.

I mean, it really sticks out because it still has, I assume,

kings watched countless humans sacrificed to the rain

Could their remains lie in the veiled crypt below?

KENNY BROAD: Those are the original insets?

NARRATOR: To the Maya, jade was a royal resource, used

KENNY BROAD: But there's no local jade, so--

Yeah, they bring it all the way from Guatemala.

This context is not only a royal context,

where the king used to rest, sit, it's also a funerary one.

There is a relationship with death here and life.

KENNY BROAD: Resurrection? MEMO: Resurrection.

sits in front of something even more grim and ominous.

MEMO: This is an amazing wall for a number of reasons.

They are long human bones that are embedded on the wall.

There's one there, another one here, and there.

KENNY BROAD: That looks like it'd be a femur or--

If you ask me, I would say, yeah, that might

MEMO: Well, I do really believe that there is something

Given the sacredness of the site, the importance

I believe it could be a burial back there.

KENNY BROAD: I mean, it makes logical sense.

Yet, if somebody is buried here, it was for sure a very

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The Secrets of El Castillo | Buried Truth of the Maya

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