The GREAT ACROPOLIS of Ek Balaam | ATG Highlights

for regular videos on ancient cultures and forgotten civilizations Please Subscribe we're here at the principal Monument of AK balam the Acropolis which stands 100 ft high this Monument which was added to over the years began in the reign of ukit khle talk and his successors added to it with superimposed stages of of construction there are all kinds of winding passageways and stairs and coral vaed rooms on various levels it's a complex structure this inscription on the Eastern side of the pyramid is damaged at the beginning but the bottom three blocks read which is the name of the stairway of kalom colom as I told told you in the last episode denotes a regional ruler ukit kle king of tal so it says I I'm not saying so it says it says so it says murals were discovered in various rooms of the Acropolis including the mural of the 96 glyphs finding Mayan glyphs painted rather than carved is not common but it tells us that they had different mediums for writing different media well you know what I mean here on one of the upper levels is a building called the Sak sh na which means either White House of accounting or White House of respect but look at this magnificent stco freeze one of the best things we've seen on this trip and what you're looking at here is the entrance which is a giant MW with fangs you're entering the Flower Mountain here this is in pure chenz style and it was worth coming to ekbalam just to see this inside of this sacred building was found the tomb of ukit Khan Le himself the richest interment in the northern regions of meso America he died in the year 814 he was laid out on a Jaguar Pelt surrounding him were both human and animal sacrificial victims and one of the earliest detested metal objects found in Maya archaeology a golden frog there was a ceramic vessel right next to his head that read on it ukit Kan Le the warrior cutter of Hearts the handsome One Prince of the Earth the holy king of talo now his skull bones suggest that he suffered from a severe deformation of the jaw which must have given him a distinctive look turn down that's the the sarlac pit 72 rooms have been found so far in this structure coming down the stairs I heard uh one of the uh tourists asking uh one of the guys that work here but when was this built and um I didn't hear what the guide said I think he probably said 800 uh because that's WR when the time was but the guy heard 1,800 and he's like oh yeah so I guess that means the Europeans uh helped taught them how to build this