The Lost City Buried Beneath the Jungle

For more than a thousand years, one of the greatest cities of the ancient Maya world stood at the heart of the Guatemalan jungle. At its height it was home to tens of thousands of people, its temples rising above the forest canopy, its plazas filled with the commerce and ceremony of a civilization that understood astronomy, mathematics, and the movement of time with a precision the modern world took centuries to rediscover. And then, sometime around the year 900, it was abandoned. The jungle moved in. And for nearly a thousand years, the city waited beneath the trees. This is the story of Tikal. #AncientHistory #LostCities #Tikal #Maya #AncientMaya #Archaeology #Guatemala #SleepDocumentary #LostCivilization #HistoryDocumentary