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Episode Guide
Dawn of the Maya
Series: National Geographic
Series Progress: Episode 22 of 3171% Completed
Synopsis
"Dawn of the Maya" tracks the Central American civilization back 1000 years into its "pre-classic" era (to c. 600 B.C). Those early Maya were anything but primitive. At El Mirador in present-day Guatemala, a city built "on an epic scale," says narrator Gavin MacFadyen, archaeologist Richard Hansen searches for the remains of a ruler known as Great Fiery Jaguar Paw, who ruled in the second century B.C. "This was a king on the order of Rameses or Cheops," says Hansen. And 60 miles away in San Bartolo, archaeologist William Saturno recalls discovering a remarkably sophisticated 2000-year-old mural that depicts the Maya creation story. Says iconographer Karl Taube: "This is basically a Sistine Chapel.".
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 32 hours 0 minutes (31 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 31 days
3 episodes/day: 11 days
5 episodes/day: 7 days
Episodes (31)
- - Diamonds of War
- - Inside Special Forces
- - Braving Alaska
- - Quest for the Phoenicians
- - The Great Indian Railway
- - Lost Kingdoms of the Maya
- - The Last Royals?
- - Love Those Trains
- - Vietnam's Unseen War
- - Air Force One
- - Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost World
- - Hawaii: Strangers in Paradise
- - Raising the Hunley
- - Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man
- - Egypt: Quest for Eternity
- - Americans on Everest
- - The FBI
- - Lost Ships of the Mediterranean
- - Geo Greats: Through the Lens
- - Inside the Vatican
- - The Quest for Noah's Flood
- - Dawn of the Maya Viewing
- - Secrets of the Titanic
- - Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
- - Egypt: Into the Great Pyramid
- - Inside Mecca
- - The Search for Kennedy's PT-109
- - Arlington: Field of Honor
- - Civil War Gold
- - Tigers of the Snow
- - Lost Subs