Josh Gates Uncovers A Mayan Chamber That Was Unseen For Over 2000 Years! | Expedition Unknown

traveling to elidor hasn’t gotten any easier in  the past year and I’m grateful when I reach the helicopter with my old friend Gabriel at the stick  H’s go okay here we [Applause] [Music] go you know no matter how many times I take this helicopter  flight I’m absolutely all struck by how Wild it is outside 360° wherever you look there is  nothing but pure jungle after all this it’s the site of ladant pyramid that tells me I’m  back here she is ladant incredible incredible as we touch down I’m greeted by a familiar face  there he is the man tell how you doing Doc and if Dr Hansen is rushing up to a running helicopter  he must be excited about something how are you D how are you good to see you you got something  to show me I think we do you do I think we

[01:10]do we take the hike into base camp and inside the  mess hall is another pleasant surprise The Bobs what’s going on how you doing sir you finally  made it turns out the father-son GPR team of Bob and Bob Leonard are back as well Richard  has brought them in to help peer inside the pyramids for any open Chambers that could be  snake king tombs what’ you find we’re seeing on several of these structures a pattern emerge  well that’s intriguing the same anomaly is in the same location on several of these structures and  that pattern makes us think it could be something important for him to investigate scientifically  so that’s exciting well one of the things that this lets us see Josh is I’m trying to understand  the the construction of these buildings and some of this information is showing us those patterns  when it comes to these snake Kings their burial

[02:11]pattern as we know has not been found well we  have 19 recorded Kings on Dynasty pots and we think they’re here this is a potential bombshell  it means that if they have discovered a snake king tomb they may also have the key to finding all of  them and so how many of these potential voids or cavities that you find so we think we found four  um and then there’s one in particular that you know we think is the most interesting okay so the  million-dollar question is where is it I think it would be best if we show you I’ve traveled on  Richard so-called Moto mules before and have the sciatica to prove it oh Richard you’ve made  some upgrades since I was here which is why I’m a little surprised to see this Josh we now call  it the Moto limousine the the Moto limo [Music]

[03:02]okay here we go the brand new mule speeds into  the jungle wooo and my anticipation builds give up the goods where is this where is this anomaly  Richard well we thought it was going to be in the on the southern side of the plaza we look there  yeah in reality it’s just in front of you here on the western end of the city stands the massive  pyramid complex known as eltigre second in size only to Mighty ladant this is clearly one of  the most important ceremonial structures in the city and now the Bobs have gathered  promising data that this pyramid may have a long forgotten chamber inside  if it’s a burial it could be a snake king we grab our gear for the  long hike up to the pyramid platform all right should remind me again  how did I end up carrying the generator after doing about a month’s  worth of the StairMaster in one go we

[04:06]arrive welcome to the upper platform of TIG  pyramid wow wow look at this Richard believes that he may have finally discovered the site  of a snake king tomb inside the holy pyramid of ltra incredible now with GPR experts Bob and  Bob Leonard we’re going to scan and see if he’s right so Richard give me a little orientation  here first of all where where are we up here Josh what we’re looking at are three buildings on  the summit of a platform which is characteristic of the architecture in the pre-classic period  from 300 BC to about the time of Christ this style of architecture where one main pyramid is  flanked by two smaller ones is called triatic and it almost always signifies a religion or  political Center and since elra was home to the city’s Elite it is perhaps the most important  triatic center in El Mirador Richard has high

[05:09]hopes for anything that’s hidden inside of it  none of the tombs of these snake Kings have ever been found no never never been found let’s  see if one of them might be up here The Bobs did an earlier scan here that discovered a void in  the pyramid but now they’ve brought a new GPR unit which uses multiple antennas it should give  them and Richard a clearer picture of what’s down there all right Josh come here check this out  you got something yeah yeah you do yeah you do look at that you can see all this clear area up  here that’s that’s Rock Solid Rock up here yeah and then when that signal gets into a a void it’ll  sit there and bounce back and forth yes um and so that’s you know that’s what we’re seeing right  there ho smokes that looks like a chamber yeah

[06:01]let’s look at it to get through the stone of  the pyramid we came prepared with a Pneumatic Rock drill powered by a gas generator which just  to remind you I slept all the way up here okay we’re up it uses a carbide bit to punch a small  deep hole in the ancient structure okay we ready yeah yep let’s go all four of us lean into the  drill it’s like boring through well solid rock but then all of a sudden it isn’t it dropped there’s a cavity there okay let’s  get it up when it drops like that or something weird up up up up w w okay let’s bring this down  pull it out okay there we go okay drill’s out okay okay now it’s camera time now it’s camera  time mine’s a little bit primitive compared to what we need I brought a little upgrade  for you oh good boy that’s it that’s it next

[07:03]the camera I’ve brought has a special pan and  tilt function holy smokes with an articulating head capable of seeing everything around it  okay we’re alive Moment of Truth you ready we send our snake cam to catch a snake king  here we go okay we’re good all right give me some slack wo stop stop stop stop stop it looks  like at the bottom there’s an open there it is there’s a room in there there’s a room in there  you go further can you push on yeah there’s the chamber there boy it looks like there’s almost  architecture to that room I know I know it looks like a squared off room do it look like to  me too what oh wait wait wait wait go back up again what’s this has got a big slab coming this  way and a Big Slab going that way it does look

[07:58]voled doesn’t it right there see which would mean  then that this thing has collapsed and there’s the remnant of the Vault this is remarkable it  is entirely possible that we’re looking at a preclassic Maya construction that no one has laid  eyes on in over 2,000 years even more significant is that the collapsed Vault looks eerily familiar  to Richard well what is fascinating is that there were two blocks like this one directly on the  other and we have a precedent for that that the great sight of w now which is here the Basin  there’s a vault there that was looted and that was a tomb you think oh yes and that’s what we  saw in that thing there which you know if that’s the case then you could be looking at another  tomb oh yeah any chance that what we’re seeing here is a snake king very possible wow we’re going  to have to dig it regardless yeah after years of

[08:47]looking for man-made cavities in the pyramids  of elidor Richard may have at last found what he’s looking for but finding out what’s inside  without damaging the structure will take months of painstakingly careful excavation so like all  things at alador we have some new answers and some new questions but what it gives us is an area  that we never would have excavated before right finding new structures at alidor unbelievable to  date I’ve been to alador three times in order to find the tombs of the snake Kings I’ve been  witnessed to some remarkable discoveries and in the process learned how the mightiest  of Empires can fall by their mismanagement of the environment now this third trip  has uncovered the possibility not just of a single snake king tomb but the  signature construction for all of them