About the series
Meet Albert Lin, a National Geographic engineer and explorer. All around him lies a lost world — entire cities hidden in the jungle. His task is to uncover the secrets of one of the planet's most mysterious ancient civilizations... the Maya. Now, thanks to the latest technology, their history is being rewritten. The ancient civilization of Central America was far more advanced than archaeologists had believed. In 2018, National Geographic reported an extraordinary discovery that captured the attention of the entire world. Using lidar laser-scanning technology, researchers were able to identify more than 60,000 man-made structures. It is the most important discovery in Maya archaeology in the last 100 years.