All language subtitles for America Unearthed S01E01 American Mayan Secrets - Pilot

John, this is Scott Walter.

Hey, Scott, how are you?

Well, not that great. I just came from
the site, and the government won't let

in. It's bullshit.

Interesting. Well, I'd be happy to. I'm
sure you'll be. I've got some direct

rock that I shot last year.

Well, I'd love to see it. I mean, that's
the next best thing.

I'm heading back to Minneapolis right
now. Could you meet me at my lab and

the footage?

Absolutely. All right. Let's plan our
meeting tomorrow. I'll see you then.

The history that we were all taught
growing up is wrong.

My name is Scott Wolper, and I'm a
forensic geologist.

There's a hidden history in this country
that nobody knows about.

There are pyramids here, chambers,
tombs, inscriptions.

They're all over this country.

We're going to investigate these
artifacts and sites, and we're going to

the truth.

Sometimes history isn't what we've been
told.

Dying to see this video here. I'm glad
to show it to you. Yeah. Say, you know,

got to tell you, the government wouldn't
let me in. How the hell did you get in

and take these videos?

Well, I had a permit back in 2011 and
spent a day at the site. It's a huge

Well, I got clips of a number of rock
walls that formed terraces going up this

mountain slope.

Maybe over 100 of these. They're just
all over the place.

Now, you said over 100?

Yeah. It's amazing.

You know, you walk along, all of a
sudden there's a rock wall and then a

relatively flat area. Now, this is a
shot from up at the upper elevation. See

how nicely constructed that wall is? And
then there were some water features,

some of these dams.

Reservoirs or something? Yeah, to
control water.

And there were some rock cairns up
there, some type of ceremonial

And I even found a rectangular stone
foundation. For a

structure of some type, pyramids
perhaps?

Okay. So we have rock formations,
extensive terraces to control water.

And stone foundations.

Is it big? You could get lost up there.
The only direction that you would know

to get out is to go down.

I tell you, if you want to know more
about this, and this is how I found out

about the site, you need to contact
Richard Thornton. He's a Native American

architect down in Georgia, and he's
spent, I don't know, a decade.

studying this. Does he think there could
be a Maya -Georgia connection at this

site? Yeah, and that's what caught my
attention.

I'll tell you what, John. If the Mayans
came to Georgia, this could rewrite

history.

Hey, how you doing?

I'm doing good.

Scott Walter.

Richard Thornton. Glad to meet you. I
was visiting down at Chattahoochee

National Forest. Yes.

Tried to look at some mound structures.
I'm investigating a possible connection

between the Mayans and Georgia.

And tried to go look at these mounds,
and I was denied.

You're kidding.

No, I was denied.

First of all, I take it you support this
whole Mayan -Georgia connection?

Well, I mean, it's not even a theory.
It's a fact. The Mayas are one of the

Mexican Native American ethnic groups
that became the Creek Indians.

What are some of the things that to you
provide evidence of this assimilation,

really, or this coming together here in
Georgia from Mexico? We have the

architecture. We have the cultural
traditions. The art are very similar.

Approximately...

Third to a half of the words in the
Itzati Creek language are either Mai or

Totonac. Okay, linguistics.

Linguistics. So what about
archaeoastronomy? They're like the

these amazing structures that align with
the sun, the moon, the planets, for

practical and religious reasons.

Is any of that going on around here?

Yes, very much so. That's where I'm a
city planner, so I'm pretty strong, so I

can help you there. Do you have any of
this architecture?

I have drawings and photographs, yes. Is
that what they don't want me to see?

I don't know why.

It's a massive site.

I want to keep in mind, this place is a
half mile square at least. It's a town.

It has over 300 stone structures.

It's like nothing else in America,
really. It's been radiocarbon dated to

least 1000 A .D.

What do the archaeologists think about
this?

I thought the archaeological community
would go gaga.

They'd be fighting over the chance to be
the one to be the great discovery of

all their lives.

Would you believe?

that some professors who had never seen
this track rock site, they formed a

political action group to oppose
anything, discussion of the track rock

it being my unit. Now, why? I don't
know, because they're like 600 miles

So you're asking me if I would believe
that the academic community might try to

shut down an investigation like this?

Yes, I would.

Look, pal, I've lived it, okay? I was
hired to investigate an artifact called

the Kensington Rooster. Yes, I've heard
of it.

When I came out with these results, I
was blasted. And it really puzzled me at

first, and then it pissed me off. Well,
I've spent the last 12 years

investigating these historical
mysteries, and when you tell me that

pushback from the professional or the
academic community...

I'm interested.

That's a sure sign that there's probably
something going on here.

These are some of John's videos.

You can see the rocks.

That's the run of a building.

It looks like an offering altar with a
little hole here.

I was thinking that also this would have
been covered with clay and then

plastered with lime stucco. You know,
Richard, I have to say, when I look at

something like this, I'm not impressed.

You know, I thought I'd be seeing these
cut, beautifully cleaved work stones and

these big temples that you think of when
you think of people like the Maya. I

mean, why don't we have that here?

This is what most Maya sites look like
before the archaeologists go to work.

the architects like me restore the
ruins.

That's what they look like, just piles
of rocks. Even great cities that had 100

,000 people would be piles of stones in
the jungle.

What does this site look like? Can you
give me a visual?

This is a computer virtual reality
model.

Obviously, there's some elevation here.
It'd be nice to see some topographic

lines, maybe a topo map. Well, now, I
have topo maps on my computer. Okay, I

going to ask you. This is a 3D model,
but if you'd like to see the actual

elevation. I would like to see that.

Do you see the crampus? Yeah.

Do you see that's terraced just like the
five -sided mountain? And it's facing

the sunset of the winter solstice.

These astronomically aligned structures,
the whole village, the way they're

oriented, is very important.

There are many monuments, perhaps 50
stone carns, that seem to be markers

to do with astronomy. So what is this?

That's one of the things when I knew it
was itsamaya. When I saw that, I said,

oh my gosh.

Actually, I said some other things, but
I hate that.

It is a device that takes the water from
the spring to drop the water to the

appropriate terrace. It's a control
device for distributing water.

What I'm trying to experiment with here
is why did they do it? Why did they

build the terraces?

I am mimicking the environmental
situation at Track Rock Gap. The Maya

civilization grew these crops on
terraces.

So do you think what we have at Track
Rock is connected to the Mayans somehow?

Yes, it's a direct connection.

Okay, why would they not let me in to
see this? I mean, it's just terracing.

leads me to believe that there's more
going on here.

Do you think there's a conspiracy maybe
going on here? There's something fishy

going on up there. I'm thinking there's
something fishy, too. But I'll tell you

what. If they won't let me hike in,
maybe I'll fly in. You ever heard of

All right, sounds good. Take it south,
though, because I think I'm going to be

coming up already.

Do you want to go up and around, then?
Yeah, up and around. All right.

This is a virtual image of the area that
we're curious about.

The main thing is if there's something
here, we're hopeful that your equipment

will pick up these terraces.

We're investigating the possibility of a
Mayan -Georgia connection.

Some researchers think that there might
be Mayan ruins on this site.

And if so, I mean, we're talking about a
huge new chapter of American history

being opened up.

That's fine. Well, you're not that much
lower, right? 500 feet? Yeah, 500 feet

right now.

Mayans in Mexico disappeared around 900
A .D.

Many people believe that they came to
Georgia.

You know, I would love to have it come
true, but you have to have the evidence.

I tried to get to this site, and the
government would not let me do it.

That's why this was planned B.

How does this LiDAR work?

Well, what you have between these two
pieces of the system is a laser head and

scanner and a GPS receiver, and they're
using timestamps.

We're able to create a point cloud,
which is a set of points accurately

and geo -referenced in a few
centimeters.

Within a few centimeters?

Absolutely.

It looks like you've set up a grid
system, so basically you're just

that grid?

Kind of think of it as mowing the lawn
when we're up here. Because it's down

back and we use some overlap to make
sure that we don't miss any grass.

So hopefully anything that shows like it
was a shelf or any anomalies in the

bare earth is supposed to show up there.
That type of scale we should be able to

get some data. Yeah, some stuff may look
like it blends into the ground.

Any kind of irregular features will
stand out. If we're able to use your

technology.

and find evidence of some of the things
we see here, there could be a Mayan

presence here.

That would be amazing.

It would be.

Here is the initial look at the actual
LIDAR data itself, so the points

themselves. So you can see the flight
lines that we flew right here.

And then down here is a profile of the
ground. You can see the trees.

Okay, and I see the...

Change in topography here. This looks
like something interesting. What would

that be? A bump there.

Maybe a man -made feature. It looks like
it might be one of the features that

we're looking for.

Okay, possibly a terrace maybe?

Correct. This is preliminary, and so
what we will do is we'll take and have

process the data, and that will probably
take a couple weeks to get the final

data set so that we can verify if that
is actually a man -made feature or not.

3D map, about two weeks, right? Yep.
Great.

You know, Jamie, when I started this
investigation, I was pretty skeptical.

I mean, the notion that the Mayans came
to Georgia seemed pretty far -fetched to

me. But as I've gone along here, things
are starting to look more interesting.

If you can generate a 3D map that looks
even remotely like this, I tell you

what, we could potentially have
something that's big. If those features

there, we're definitely going to see
them in the data.

It'll take two weeks for Aerometrics to
compile all the LiDAR data, which could

help prove a Mayan connection to Jordan.

If the Mayans did come here, I wonder if
it's connected to their prophecy.

The Mayan civilization began in 2000 BC
and started to collapse around 750 AD

when they began to abandon their cities
en masse.

They had to go somewhere, and this stone
nearby could be a clue they came to the

U .S.

Are you Scott?

Yes. Gary Daniels, I presume?

That's correct. All right. Great
weather. A little wet today, but I got

you, I think the rock looks better wet
than if it was dry.

I agree. What makes this rock
specifically tied to the Maya -Georgia

in your mind?

Both cultures, the Maya and the Creek
Indians, use the exact same symbols to

record the exact same event.

Well, you know, Gary, I clearly see
these spiral symbols here.

We got an indentation in the middle.
This one has a couple of different rings

with an indentation.

And then we have these cupules along the
top.

I know what I think it is, but what do
you see?

My first impression was that it's a star
map.

I believe that this records...

An event which happened in 536 A .D.,
which was a comet impact event. And that

would explain why they went through the
effort to carve this into this boulder.

This was no easy task.

No, it wasn't. And I have to say, Gary,
that I agree with you. I'm pretty

convinced this is a star map as well.
It's an interesting connection with the

impact and the symbols tying the creek
with the Maya. I think that's plausible.

But this might not be the only geologic
clue that makes a connection.

Tell me what you know about Maya Blue.

Now, Maya Blue was a pigment that the
Maya used in their murals, and it lasts

very long time without fading. And I
think I understand the reason for that.

Maya Blue is a very interesting
combination of a clay mineral called

paligorskite that they mix with an
indigo pigment made from an anil plant.

And there's lots of paligorskite in
Georgia, but relatively little of it in

Mexico. Gary, I think.

that the Maya Blue in Mexico could have
been made with the paligorskite clay in

Georgia. There are still sites in Mexico
where they haven't found the actual

source for the Maya Blue. So that's
definitely a good thing to look into.

So we've got the Maya Blue pigment
mystery as well as star maps both there

and in Georgia. That's interesting.

And those are not the only connections.
It goes much deeper than that. Now,

check these out. This copper plate was
unearthed in North Georgia. What's

interesting about this is that almost an
identical image as this was found at

Chichen Itza in the Yucatan.

Wow. This looks like some type of shaman
or somebody in the middle of a ritual.

Is that a severed head?

Yep. And you have this in Chichen Itza
as well. Exactly.

Wow. Are there any other sites that
might tie into what we're looking at

Absolutely. Just a few hours from here,
there's a site called Okamulgi. They

found an elite burial that showed
cranial deformation, a known technique

Maya world that they also use on their
elites.

Cranial deformation is a procedure they
did at birth where they placed the child

on a flattened board, placed another
board on his head, which forced... the

skull to grow in a certain shape, which
gave them sort of a flattened appearance

to the forehead.

With everything I've seen so far, how
come nobody knows about this?

People have been writing in the
literature, the archaeological

this connection for 150 years, but it
has become a taboo subject.

I'm continually amazed every time I see
something new that changes history in a

profound way and it gets ignored, put
under the rug.

and people that even dare to investigate
it get criticized. I've been through

that myself.

You've got to figure out a way to make
it stop. Yeah, they say science changes

one death at a time, and I think that's
what it's going to take. You know what?

I'm not going to wait for these people
to die. Sorry.

I'm going to get answers.

Let's go to old Holguin.

How long have you been studying this
Maya -Georgia connection?

Well, I've been researching the Georgia
-Mexico connection for about 10 years,

but it's only within the last couple of
years that I really stumbled on the

Mayan presence in both Florida and
Georgia.

Okay.

What do you think of Richard Thornton's
research?

You know, Mr. Thornton has presented a
hypothesis.

And that hypothesis needs to be tested.

Is the track rock site a Mayan site? I
don't know.

Could it be? Absolutely, it could be.

But we're never going to know that as
long as the academics are insisting that

it can't be.

So instead of sitting in your chair
talking about it, actually getting out

and doing something.

Absolutely. Making proclamations about
what it isn't serves no purpose.

I agree.

Wow.

Take a look at this. This is that mound.
It's a spiral mound, isn't it?

That's without the vegetation.

Well, now I can kind of see it.

Can we take a closer look?

Let's go. All right.

We've got mounds of Minnesota, but I
haven't seen any this big.

Wow. One, two, three, four.

Yeah, I see at least one, two, three.
Four, five levels.

Even maybe a fifth one up there.

This is cool as hell.

And there's a site called Xochitlacatl
in Mexico. And it's the only other place

in North America or Central America that
has a spiral mound exactly like this,

where you follow the spiral to the top.
Not only that, it's laid out exactly

like the mound site here with the spiral
mound on one end and the square mound

on the other. This mound, the Creek
Indians said this is where they perform

their snake dance.

And so they marched in procession around
the mound until they reached the top

for their ceremony.

There was also Lake Okeechobee. Now,
when the Spanish came to Lake

they found three people living around
that lake, the Maya Imi, the Mayaka, and

the Maya Yuaki. So three people calling
themselves Maya.

Is there also maybe a connection to
Miami?

Absolutely. This is really incredible. I
had no idea that there would be a

spiral mound here. We have spiral mounds
in Mexico. This Maya -Georgia

connection is really starting to come
together, and I'm feeling it.

Well, Gary, you promised me some
archaeoastronomy. I see a beautiful

structure here with a long doorway
that's facing pretty close to due east.

According to the Creek Migration legend,
the very first structure they built

when they arrived here was a mound with
a central chamber. The doorway of this

earth lodge aligned with the sunrise.

There's no question that the Mayans also
aligned their temples and their

structures according to
archaeoastronomy. So is this purely a

Clearly there was something going on.
This is fascinating.

I mean, we've got two large mounds.

We've got this one here that has an
obvious alignment both to the sun and to

stars. We've got that amazing spiral
structure, the cranial deformation.

I'm dying to go to Mexico. If I can find
some of the things that are here over

there, we've got something that's huge.

Pleasure. Welcome to the site of Chichen
Itza.

Everything you see is archaeological
evidence.

Everything? Everything. How big is this
site?

It's really hard to tell.

We don't have a full map of the site.

I know it took thousands of people to
build sites like Chichen Itza. The Maya

Empire was massive, encompassing parts
of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize,

and the Yucatan.

Many people think the Mayans died out
completely, but they didn't. Even so,

something forced them to abandon their
major cities beginning around 750 A .D.

and spread throughout the region or
beyond to the United States.

Oh, wow.

You know, from this perspective, it's
just like symmetric. It's perfect. The

lines are perfect.

That's amazing.

They were copying the shapes of the
mountains.

So what we're looking at here is really
a man -made mountain. It was

intentionally made to mimic the
mountains.

I've recently been to a site in North
America in the state of Georgia.

And one of the things that we did that
was amazing, and I haven't seen the

results yet, but I saw some preliminary
data, was some technology called LiDAR.

where basically you fly over an area and
it will collect three -dimensional data

of the topography of the area. And what
we think we see are remnants of man

-made structures at the site that are
somewhat reminiscent of what we see

I'm wondering what your thoughts are on
the possibility of contact with the

Mayans here, possibly with native
culture in what is now the United

I think it's very possible.

Oh, you're saying that's flat out. Okay,
well, you agree with the speculation.

If we really understand what the Maya
did here and if we really think there

contact, then what we do is take
everything that we learned here and then

that as a guide to look for evidence
over there. Yes, I would agree.

You can maybe find a Maya there or you
can find a Georgian down here.

Well, this building that we have in
front of us is the observatory, and it's

been proven by astronomers that it's a
structure that aligns to different

positions of Venus and positions of the
sun.

So those small little windows up there,
they were used to track these planets,

track Venus.

You know that this window aligns to this
part of the year, and this one aligns

to this time of the year. So there's a
connection between architecture,

astronomy, and the calendar.

Well, this is part of the science we
call archaeoastronomy.

Right. The other thing that we believe
is that creating a building that has

alignments with the planet and the sun,
you are creating a link between heaven

and earth.

So the building is the link between the
two.

In Georgia, I saw a spiral mound. I also
saw a boulder that had spirals carved

into it. So the spiral is very
important. It crossed Georgia, and it

connect over here with the Mayans. So
maybe that's another.

uh connection or a piece of evidence we
can tie together between the two

cultures yeah i think it's very strong
element and i think it's very important

for the maya to listen everything

this

is called the nautilus shell it's the
spiral design we have something here

called the fibonacci sequence and it's
just simply an A mathematical

where you add numbers sequentially and
it will grow exponentially creating, in

this case, a spiral. Many ancient
cultures saw this design, figured out

mathematics of it in nature, and then
incorporated it into the architecture

into their artwork.

Oh yes, it's very important to go in the
Maya.

Buildings are designed in geometric
proportions and they're pleasing to the

of the human.

We're getting very close to the end of
the Mayan calendar, which is December

21st, which ironically happens to be my
birthday.

And many people think this is going to
be the end of the world because of the

Mayans. We are ending the 12 Bakhtun.

That means we're going to start the 13
Bakhtun during your birthday.

And then we're going to spend 400 years
more counting days until we get to the

14th Bakhtun. It's a marker for a new
beginning. If the Mayans were here, it

would be the biggest celebration you can
think about. There would be offerings,

there would be sacrifices, there would
be ceremonies, because it's not the end,

it's just the beginning of something
new. But I think it's really important

the Mayans are getting some attention.

I couldn't agree more. I'm looking
forward to seeing some of the carvings

your site here. And there was something
that was found in Georgia.

I have seen similar carvings on this,
the head of the captive on this side.

Yes, I think I can show you something
similar at the site.

You can tell that the person has some
sort of war instrument in his hand, like

this one right here.

He has also feathers in the back, like
he has coming this way.

But the most striking part is that
there's a little head hanging from his

hand with a spear, sir. You can see that
the head is almost identical to the one

he has there. Maybe a captain, maybe
somebody who loves the war. Really,

everything that you talked about, I see
here.

This is pretty compelling, is it not?

Yes, I can see a relationship between
the two sides. I see a huge piece to a

puzzle of many cultures coming to North
America prior to Columbus.

And I think we can put the Mayans into
that puzzle.

And it just completely rewrites the
history of North America as we know it.

Okay, Alfonso, let's talk about what we
have so far.

We've got the temples here.

We've got similar stone structures in
Georgia. We've got the linguistic

connections. We've got the iconography
of the mural that's so fantastic it's

virtually identical.

We've got the archaeoastronomy.

I tell you, we're starting to build a
pretty strong case here. What can you

me about Maya Blue?

Let me show you.

This is the sacred cenote of Chichen
Itza.

It's huge.

This is a giant sinkhole. It's just
incredible.

Well, this is the most special place in
Chichen Itza.

This is where he gets his name.

Chichen means the mouth of the sinkhole.

That means a cenote.

And not only is it a water place, but
it's also a sacred place to bring

offerings. What do we know about the
bottom? What's on the bottom? The

Maya Blue, they found remains of
children between 9 and 10.

This is crazy.

Why would they throw children in here?

The belief is that children are the
ideal messenger to the rain god. So when

want to please the rain god, you use
children as offerings. So you sacrifice

them. Okay. Wow.

Geologically, I've read that down at the
bottom of this cenote, there is a 4

meter or about 14...

foot thick layer that is heavily laden
with maya blue clay that represents a

of material how would that much maya
blue get get in the uh the bottom one

possibility will be that the children
were painted blue before being thrown

cenote the other thing is that we have
other types of sacrifices sacrifices

we know that happen in chechen because
we have

carving and a painting that shows the
person being against a trapezoid stone

they can put pressure in the back and
they can use a knife and slice the chest

open, pull the heart out and then offer
it to the gods. So they place them on a

rock to arch their body so when they
made the incision it would naturally

and then they would go in.

You know, I knew that they used the Maya
blue in the murals and in some of the

artifacts, the vessels and various
things, but I had no idea that they were

using it to paint the people for
sacrifice.

That's what we assume by the amount of
Maya blue in the bottom of the cenote.

there any Maya blue, the original Maya
blue, still on site here anywhere?

Oh, yes, there's still some that we can
see, and there's still some inside of

the building.

I think the Maya Blue could be the hard
link between the Mayans and Georgia.

As a geologist, it just might be the
scientific proof I've been looking for.

This is a good example of Maya Blue. You
can tell.

That is around the square.

Maya blue was used for painting
buildings and painting offerings, and

sacrificial victims.

My understanding is that the longevity
of this material, why it lasts so long,

is because it's made of a very special
clay called paligorskite, combined with

blue dye or an indigo dye made from anil
leaves around here.

It resists acids, and it's very durable.
Now, this type of clay we commonly see

in cat litter. It causes clumping. We
also see it in anti -diarrhea medicine

because it absorbs the toxins. So this
clay material is very unique. It creates

a dye that lasts a very long time. How
long has this pigment been sitting on

this wall?

Well, the date we have is about 900 A
.D.

That would be about 1 ,100 years ago. 1
,100 years ago. Indeed. So this unique

clay, where would they get this source
material?

I don't know. I haven't found a single
source.

Yes, and that's another important piece
to this puzzle that we're trying to

figure out is we do have a very good
source of paligorskite in Georgia, and

could be the source for the Mayans. And
I do have a way I think we might be able

to test this so we can compare it to see
if this is the same source material

as... is georgia found here i'm getting
really excited about this case we have

the cranial deformation we have evidence
in georgia of that practice we know we

have it here we have the wonderful mural
that you showed us that the iconography

that was virtually identical to that
copper plate that we talked about we

stone structures in georgia that have a
similar layout at least appears to be a

similar layout to what we have here and
lastly We have archaeoastronomy, which

ties all people together, but certainly
the culture in Georgia that we're

looking at and the Maya people here. We
still have the LIDAR data that we need

to look at, but I tell you what, this is
looking really good.

All right, Jamie, tell me what you got
here.

So this is the LIDAR data of the track
route site.

And so what we're looking at here, this
is the side of the mountain that we were

flying around with your plane and
shooting with the LIDAR. We've taken the

away. I put markers in here to kind of
indicate in relationship to the picture

that you gave me of the site itself.

Are you saying that Richard Thornton's
recreation of what he thinks is there

correlates with what you found on the
LIDAR? In terms of... My LiDAR

yes. I think that there's a very strong
indication that this correlates very

well. You can see it here, here. You can
see something here, and then you can

see all the little parrots down here.
This is amazing.

What about the Okmogi site?

Were you able to fly over there?

Yeah, we actually did get down there and
we were able to fly it. Right here,

what we're looking at is the actual
LIDAR data, so how it's represented.

This is the spiral site. I think I can
see what looked to be the terraces that

we saw at the site.

There's no mistaking when you look at
that image that it's definitely a mound.

The spirals appear to be there and it
looks...

virtually identical to spiral mounds
that are down in Mexico.

I tell you what, this is really coming
together.

I just, I can't believe it. I mean,
we've got spiral mounds that the Mayans

built. We've got them in Georgia.

We've got archaeoastronomy, both the
Mayans and in Georgia. We've got

iconography. We've got cranial
deformation. We've got linguistics.

It's really coming together. All the
pieces are beginning to fit. But there's

one more thing that I want to do, a
quick test that I think might be the

piece that pulls this all together to
prove that Mayan -Georgia connection.

Hey, Adam, check this out. What do we
have?

We're going to make some Maya blue. It's
a paint that the Mayans made. It was

very sacred to them. They used it in
murals. They also used it in sacrifice,

ritual sacrifices.

Paint the victim head to toe in this
Maya blue paint, rip their hearts out,

then throw the body in a huge sinkhole
they call the cenote. But I think

is going to solve...

The question that we're trying to answer
here, which is, did the Mayans view

Georgia clay, specifically Paligorskite
clay?

Using indigo from anil and Paligorskite
clay from Georgia, I'm going to make

Maya blue.

If the Georgia clay in my sample matches
X -ray test results of clay used in

real Maya blue, then we have a hard
geological link between the Mayans and

Georgia.

Well, basically what I'm trying to do is
to figure out if there's a match

between Maya Blue in Mexico and a sample
of paligorskite from

Georgia. They did find some sources in
Mexico, but there's just not enough

sources to explain the amount of
paligorskite that they found.

Well, I definitely think we can help you
with this, so let's have a look.

If you're able to make a definitive
connection, it will prove to me beyond a

shadow of a doubt that we definitely
have this connection between the Mayans

Mexico and Georgia.

Here we've got the scan that we did. The
ones labeled PA are the peaks.

We would expect for the palygorskite
clay structure.

And these ones labeled QU, these are one
of the impurities present.

And this is the mineral quartz.

So these are your signature elements.

Now the question is, how do they compare
with the actual Maya blue sample?

It actually matches almost perfectly.

So we have a match, don't we? Yes, we
do.

You know what?

I'm surprised, but yet I'm not
surprised. Given everything that I've

was the final piece to tie this
together.

There's a whole host of academics that
refuse to believe that there were

cultures that came to North America
prior to Columbus. And it's bullshit.

is scientific proof of a connection.

It's impossible to deny.

It's going to make a lot of people very
excited.

Richard Thornton, one of them, who's a
researcher that was adamant that there

was absolutely a connection between the
Mayans and the people in Georgia. This

testing here not only forces us to re
-examine this chapter of American

but it demands that we open up the whole
book to get to the truth of what really

happened.

Mayan prophecy does declare 2012 as a
turning point.

Maybe not the end, but the start of a
new Bakhtin, a new beginning.

A new beginning might have been what the
Mayans were looking for in Georgia.

Whatever it was, it must have involved
archaeological astronomy.

Some sort of alignment to the stars.

There are so many unanswered questions
still out there. What I've learned about

where they went and what they believe is
just the beginning.

There's more to America than we realize.

We have the right to question the
history we've been taught.

To examine things with our own eyes.

My job is to explain the unexplained, to
find the answers to questions about our

path when no one else will.

If you have a mysterious artifact or
site I need to see, I want to know about

it. Go to history .com slash unearthed.