Danny Jones Podcast
#272 - Ancient Archeologist Discovers Lost Maya 'Super City' in North America | Ed Barnhart & Luke Caverns
02 Dec 2024
Watch all episodes ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Dr. Ed Barnhart holds a Ph.D. and has over 20 years of experience in North, Central, and South America as an archaeologist, explorer, and instructor. In 1994 he discovered the ancient city of Maax Na (Spider-Monkey House) & in 1998 he directed a three-year effort to survey and map the unknown sections of Palenque's ruins. Ed's map is currently one of the most detailed and accurate ever made of a Maya ruin. SPONSORS https://buy.ver.so/danny - Get 15% off your first order. https://bit.ly/viiadannyjones - Try VIIA & use code DANNY. https://manscaped.com - Use code DANNYJONES for 20% off + FREE shipping. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS https://www.mayaexploration.org Ed's YouTube channel: @archaeoedpodcast Luke's YouTube channel: @lukecaverns FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Finding an undiscovered Mayan city 09:32 - How many undiscovered pyramids are left? 15:35 - Ancient Mayans' advanced calendars 28:29 - Ancient Mayan archaeoastronomy 36:43 - White Sands: oldest humans in America 46:50 - Younger dryas population reset 51:58 - Undiscovered lost cities in the United States 01:01:40 - Graham Hancock 01:27:02 - New theory explains how Olmec heads were moved 01:40:45 - Why all ancient civilizations built pyramids 01:52:47 - Death & religion in ancient Egypt 01:59:53 - Drugs in ancient America 02:05:32 - Blood rituals in ancient Mayan civilization 02:14:21 - Warfare in Mayan civilization 02:22:50 - Ancient influence on modern architecture 02:25:28 - Human sacrifice in Aztec culture 02:34:40 - La Noche Triste 02:44:48 - Spanish disease in Aztec civilizations 02:54:13 - Aliens or lost civilization? 03:04:30 - Easter Island Moai heads 03:10:18 - New mystery of Easter Island 03:13:53 - Patreon questions 03:15:26 - Mercury & chemicals in ancient South America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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All right. Thanks for coming, guys. Dr. Ed Barnhart, it's a pleasure to meet you. Thank you. Luke, welcome back. Thank you very much for having me again. Yeah, man. I'm excited to chat with you guys. Ed, why don't you introduce yourself and tell people who are listening a little bit about your background and how you discovered a lost city when you were 25 years old? Well, okay.
I'm an archaeologist, explorer, educator, and I've been at this for over 30 years now. I'm 56 this year. I got my start in archaeology in – I was a student in the University of Colorado at Boulder. Went to Honduras to go to the Maya site of Copan.
There I met my future mentor, Linda Shealy, and I went to study with her for years, learning Maya hieroglyphs, and also from UT going out to do archaeology and survey in Belize. And that's where, at the age of 25, I found a Maya city. I used a topo map, kind of played the game of if I was a Maya, where in this huge region would I put a city? And I guessed right.
Two years into the project, we actually found a bunch of pyramids around a plaza with a ball court and a palace and stela. So, yeah, that was certainly a pivotal moment in my life. And since then, I've – I taught for a little while after I got my master's and then my Ph.D., but – Where I really wanted to be was out back in the jungle and all those adventures.
I didn't want to be teaching cultural anthropology to a bunch of people who were asleep in my classroom. So I ditched that, and I started the Palenque Mapping Project, which became ultimately my dissertation. And then from there, I created Maya Exploration Center, which is now over 20 years old. And Luke here is the latest member of Maya Exploration Center.
And we kind of, in an almost rogue fashion, teach folks out in the field. We do field education tours. So we give lectures at night and we bring people actually through the ruins and teach them about it. And it's been great. For years now, I've traveled all over Mesoamerica and South America teaching people, but also selfishly, Making it like I really want to go there.
I'm going to make a trip and people can come and be involved in my research. And now I've done that for a number of years. I've gotten into this podcast world by creating a podcast. I actually... I didn't mean to make a podcast. It was COVID. My kids wanted to make a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. So I spent a week learning how to make podcasts. But by then they were over it.
So I was like, well, damn, somebody's making a podcast in this house. I guess I'll do it.
So when you just first discovered that Lost City, what was the name of it? And how did you sort of figure out where to look or what did you use to guess where it would be and where they would put it?
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