00:01One day, I crossed the jungle,
00:03a piece of paper drawn on a piece of paper.
00:07After days of walking, I reached an ancient temple maya.
00:10As I entered, a strange noise was heard.
00:14I returned to leave, but suddenly, the ground fell down below my feet,
00:18and I fell directly into a old tomb of 1600 years old.
00:22Finally, I was lucky.
00:23This day, I was already charged with jades,
00:26and I also found a scary mask.
00:30I always hate me today.
00:33Well, it may not happen exactly like that.
00:37Or maybe it may not happen.
00:39Hellas, the archaeology in real life is not like the films of Indiana Jones.
00:44However, the discoveries can be as important.
00:48Especially in Belize,
00:49where the archaeologists came to discover
00:51the first identifiable tomb of a sovereign in the Maya city,
00:54perdues of Caracol.
00:56After 40 years of fouilles,
00:58a team managed to finally open a hidden room,
01:02enfoui profondément sous a structure
01:04they had already studied.
01:05And inside this tomb,
01:07which had about 1600 years,
01:09was Te'Kab Shaq,
01:11the first roi known of Caracol.
01:13On traduit couramment son nom
01:15par Dieu de la pluie et de la branche d'arbres,
01:18which is very poetic and really great.
01:20The roi Shaq was considered
01:22like a maya divinity who controlled the pluie,
01:24the tonnerre and the clouds.
01:26According to the folklore,
01:28he used the hatches
01:29to hit the serpent port of the clouds
01:30in the sky,
01:31and they were going to fall.
01:33The roi Enterré
01:34is considered like the founder of the dynasty.
01:37And this dynasty has lasted more than 460 years.
01:41And in judging by what was entered with him,
01:43we can suppose that the roi Shaq was very admired.
01:46His tomb contained
01:47pearls of jade,
01:49the skulls,
01:49the stones,
01:50the scissors,
01:51and the vases in ritual pot.
01:53One of these vases
01:54represents Ek Chua,
01:55the divinity maya of commerce,
01:57receiving offhand.
01:58Others show
01:59the prisoners liés.
02:01The archaicists saw
02:02that they found a high royalty
02:04when they saw
02:05the considerable quantities of cinabres rouges
02:07in the tomb,
02:08a rare material and cost-effective
02:10appropriate to the Maya world.
02:12There was also a mask in mosaics of jade,
02:15assembled like a puzzle
02:16to cover the face of the roi
02:18of a glass.
02:19We didn't use only the jade
02:21because it was very brilliant.
02:22It was sacred
02:23and symbolically associated
02:25to life and to death.
02:26The jade poly
02:27scintille
02:28like if it had been tremped
02:29in the water.
02:30And it is cold at the beginning,
02:31but it is quickly
02:32in the hands.
02:33For the ancients mayas,
02:35this quality
02:35made of jade
02:36a living substance,
02:38respirable.
02:39And for this reason,
02:40it had a great importance
02:42religious and spiritual importance.
02:44The mayas
02:44the associated
02:45to the soul of life,
02:46to the royalty,
02:47to the eternity.
02:49To cover the jade
02:49the face of someone
02:50showed how much this person
02:52was important.
02:54The masque du roi Shaq
02:55has not yet been examined correctly,
02:57but another masque
02:58famous,
02:59the roi Pakal,
03:00made more than 300
03:02kawassi fragments
03:03of jade vert.
03:04A work meticulous.
03:05But what is perhaps
03:06the most fascinating
03:08symbolically
03:08about this roi
03:09is that he was
03:10old,
03:11not only
03:11for a long life,
03:13but old
03:14to be edent.
03:15For us,
03:16this means
03:17that he didn't know
03:18how well
03:18to clean the dents.
03:20Because,
03:20no,
03:21we usually don't lose
03:22their hands
03:22simply in age
03:23but
03:24to maintain
03:25a good
03:26hygiene
03:26and
03:27to have
03:28the
03:28needs
03:52the world
03:52of
03:53the
03:53world
03:53was
03:53the
03:54world
03:54of
03:54the
03:54world
03:54people
03:54who
04:20were
04:20who
04:21the
04:23was
04:24found
04:25under
04:27another
04:28tomb
04:28in 1993
04:30the
04:32archaic
04:33archaic
04:33archaic
04:34was
04:35found
04:35the
04:36tomb
04:36in the
04:37tomb
04:46of
04:47the
04:47tomb
04:47the
04:48first
04:48ever
04:48discovered
04:49Caracol
04:50who could be
04:51definitely
04:51linked to
04:52a
04:52known
04:52thanks
04:53to
04:53the
04:53history
04:53of
05:02Caracol
05:02today
05:02it's
05:04a
05:04island
05:04of
05:0516
05:08centuries
05:08Caracol
05:09was
05:10one
05:10of
05:16the
05:17square
05:17which
05:18for
05:18reference
05:19is
05:19more vast
05:20than
05:20100
05:20000
05:21people
05:23and
05:24they
05:27were
05:28advanced
05:30Caracol
05:31was
05:31an
05:31an
05:31an
05:32an
05:33an
05:35an
05:36an
05:36an
05:36an
05:36an
05:39an
05:47bigger
05:47and
05:48greatest
05:49student
05:49one
05:50there
05:51is
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:52an
05:53an
05:54an
05:54an
05:54an
05:54This is located close to Kaana. The center of Caracol is one of the most
06:01buildings built by the man Obelise to today. It reaches a impressive height of 43 meters
06:07and contains several floors where we found the elite and the temples. But even with this
06:13size, finding the tomb is not at all easy. Most of them have already been killed. We
06:18don't know what is still hiding there. And in some areas, creuser risk of damage.
06:23That's why it needed decades to find something intact.
06:28However, they have more 850 buildings and 175 tombes at Caracol during their mission
06:36which has lasted four decades. One of the first tomb, that is about 350 of
06:41our era, is a building by cremation containing artifacts rituals such as
06:46lames en obsidian, pointes of lance and stylus of ceramics associated with central Mexico.
06:53If you are an archerologist, this city will be for you an historic mine. But the
06:58mines of historic historic mines are often accompanied by mises in guard. For example,
07:02don't enter, the ceiling might fall on top of it. In addition, even if scientists are
07:07enthusiastic about this discovery, the king is probably agitated if he can really
07:12travel between different worlds. So what do we do now that the eternal rest of the king
07:18has been disturbed? In opening and entering into the tomb of Tekabchak, the archerologists
07:24have penetrated into a sacred place where it is located. The tomb mayas were not simply
07:29in the middle of the woods with a beautiful wall. They were sealed like
07:33cosmic coffers, fermées with the pierre, earth and sometimes with rituals of
07:38fermeture elaborated. The idea is that once re-fermed, what the tomb contained was not
07:43more touched. The archerologists at Caracol and in other cities mayas have been
07:47prouvé tout ça. Des couches épaisses et impénétrables, des offrandes définitives
07:52et des débris soigneusement déposés signifiant clairement que nul ne devait
07:56pénétrer à l'intérieur. Les archéologues d'aujourd'hui les traitent encore ainsi.
08:00Ils travaillent selon des lois et des protocoles stricts et font montre du plus
08:04grand respect pour ce que tout cela représentait pour les bâtisseurs d'origine.
08:09Cependant, il est étrange de penser à la mythologie et de se demander si
08:13Tchak va hanter les archéologues. Je suppose que nous verrons bien. Il ne
08:16devrait pas avoir peur. Il est vieux et n'a pas de dents. Peut-être qu'il les
08:20embêtera avec de la pluie. Après tout, il tient son nom d'une divinité
08:24pluvieuse et nous ne connaissons toujours pas sa véritable puissance. Les mayas
08:28étaient une civilisation fascinante et leur structure compte encore parmi les
08:32plus mystérieuses que l'on puisse trouver. Bien qu'ils aient été isolés du
08:35monde connu, ils ont également construit des pyramides sans grue, cartographié le
08:40ciel nocturne sans télescope et ils savaient comment
08:42enterrer un roi. Caracol est plein de secrets. Une tombe cachée sous une autre
08:47tombe, un roi édenté avec un masque effrayant et le nom d'une divinité, c'est
08:53presque incroyable. Et étonnamment, on continue aujourd'hui de faire des
08:57découvertes. Alors peut-être qu'il n'est finalement pas trop tard pour moi. Mais
09:01d'abord, voyons un peu les conséquences de cette malédiction, d'accord?
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