Dr. Ed Barnhart, an American archaeologist, answers the internet’s burning questions about the ancient Maya civilization. Why was the Maya calendar year only 260 days? Who did they sacrifice? Did they build more pyramids than the Egyptians? This Maya expert answers all these questions and much more.
Dr. Ed Barnhart is the director of Maya Exploration Center https://www.mayaexploration.org
Check out The ArchaeoEd Podcast – https://www.archaeoed.com for more content about the ancient Americas.
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Christopher Jones
Expert: Ed Barnhart
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Sound Mixer: Kari Barber
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
00:00 Maya Support
00:10 Shaping Baby Heads
00:59 Kukulkan
01:40 Maya Calendar
02:48 Maya Sandals
03:13 2012 Apocalypse
04:15 Maya vs Aztec
04:47 Sports
06:36 Sacrifice
06:57 Lost Maya City
08:53 Cacao
09:56 Maya Civilization
11:06 Pyramids
12:09 Tools
12:49 Aliens
13:16 King Pakal
14:10 Palenque
15:25 Indigenous Writing
17:26 Mayan Language
18:39 Building Ancient Cities
19:55 Astronomy
21:05 Math
22:11 Maya Today
Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7
Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► https://link.chtbl.com/wired-ytc-desc
Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_YouTube?source=EDT_WIR_YouTube_0_Video_Description_ZZ
Follow WIRED:
Instagram ►►https://instagram.com/wired
Twitter ►►http://www.twitter.com/wired
Facebook ►►https://www.facebook.com/wired
Tik Tok ►►https://www.tiktok.com/@wired
Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: https://wrd.cm/DailyYT
Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV.
ABOUT WIRED
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.
LOL . my mom owns a deli and we are Mayas decent. That’s funny cause she’s also short hahaha 🇬🇹🔥 proud.
‘Yesss, the Mayans got a little more into the human sacrifice after meeting the Aztecs’ said with the cadence of ‘yyeaahh, my bad influence friend got me to drink a litttleee too much last night’
There were absolutely no proof of human sacrifice … in Mesoamerica. …
You had me until the whining about western societies. 🙄 Yes that’s why aliens didn’t help the mayans. FFS
My youtube auto-rolled onto this video in the background, and I really thought it was Jonnyethco talking.
spend a few centuries in the dark with only the sky to look at…
I am Mexican, and I remember in school they taught us how to count and read Mayan, my teacher in primary school had to only teach us the numbers but she went on to teach us some words and how to read a bit. Not sure they do this nowadays. And yes mexica people (aztecs as the world calls them) were more into warfare, mayas were the scholars imo ❤
The Mayans sacrificed the pretty, perfect people. The tall, athletic warriors. Which caused a weird reaction where it was desirable to look odd, wonky, and even straight up disabled, hence the weird head shaping, and only the short people were left (much like how the average height of the French population dropped because all of the the tall soldiers drafted into the Napoleonic wars died)
How did they cut stone without metal tools?
A harder stone will cut and shape softer stones.
wait so youre NOT steve wazniac?
What sense does it make to build a pyramid in Egypt solely as a tomb ? 12:00
4:09 — Yeh, uh, the world’s not gonna end in 4772 either…
22:44 😂😂😂 facts
Can we have him watch Indiana Jones next?
next, let’s have a Higa expert answer Maya questions.
Wait, they painted tree bark with limestone washes and stucco? So, like Western cultures using gesso on parchment to prepare it for an illuminated manuscript? How cool is that?
Did they use something like hide glue to attach the end panels to flat boards, or just leave the accordion book without covers?
They took all that astrological & mathematics then used it for a new form of astrology. Astrology is junk science
Me gusta la guayabera azul, gracias por compartir su conocimiento
And today I look for kids with flat heads to judge their parents for raising iPad babies
I completely understand his statement: “this was supposed to be my life goal and when I did it at 25 I stood there and wondered, ‘well what am I gonna do now?’ “. That’s how I felt after college. I was terrified.