Discovery of Ancient Pyramid in Guatemala

It's a monster.

Somebody was flying by what they thought

was a volcano in the 30s.

And he thought, hey, somebody built that.

Wait a minute, there's four by eight foot bricks.

That's man-made.

And it is literally the biggest pyramid in the world.

It's bigger than the ones in Egypt.

And it's in Guatemala.

Maybe 20 years ago, I visited.

I went down there with the archaeologist,

the guy named Richard Hansen.

And he's down there with his family.

He's been working tirelessly for like 30 years

trying to extract this pre-classic city

from the jungle.

And there's not a bunch of tourists.

All the pyramids in Tikal would fit inside the one big pyramid

in El Mirador.

Really?

Yeah.

It's a monster.

And so that tells you that the pre-classic civilization was

bigger and grander and more sophisticated

than the civilizations that came after it.

We're no smarter than our grandparents, I don't think.