Deep in the primeval forest of Guatemala lies the oldest "Maya Metropolis".
Data was found in the city that go back up to the 8th century B.C.
On a ruin zone of 16 square kilometers, around 3000 buildings were located.
The population is guessed to have been up to 120,000 people.
Till today the archeologists still didn't find out
what the sudden disappearance of the Mayas

Here on top of Temple 1 one has a view into a different world.

The skyscrapers of a modern city rise up to 70m pyramids above the treetops. Even today only
a fraction of the huge area of Tikal is discovered and researched. This "deficit" applies to the whole
southamerican continent. We are currently at the beginning of the discovery of South America's
primitive cultures. Even the Maya writing is still not totally decyphered,
contrary to what a few experts think!

At the main place, where the huge buildings met each other, the ceremonial life of the
inhabitants took place. Why did the people build such a gigantic city?
Huge cisterns for water supply had to be built in order to supply the population, whereby
the huge lake Peten Itza was situated only 40km away. Tikal was built as a holy place for
the primitive people. The following was decyphered on a stele:

"Here came the gods from the stars down to the earth!"

A stele, found in the rubble of the city, shows a
figure with probably technical equipment.
Maya experts comment that a "pipe" from the head
leading to a box on the leg is a spinal column.

Yucatan, the Maya peninsula (very good photos)

"Astronauts with the Mayas" (W. J. Langbein)

360° Panorama in Tikal (Guatemala)

The brass of Palenque