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That is the frieze right there. thats the corner image of one of the dead kings. you can imagine what they would have done. they would have thought there was definitely something cool behind this carving and they would just blast through it. hes all there. it goes for eight metres that way and another five this way. he has been damaged on purpose by the ancient maya. nothing else really is damaged in the whole carving. just his face, his necklace, ceremonial head. the maya believed everything ha...

Would have meant. so tikal was defeating its arch enemy, the snake kingdom. they had already defeated the snake kings and now they were going after its former allies or vassals. this is historical archaeology. we do notjust talk about processes any more and theories. now we talk about specific events and specific people. because we can read the inscriptions. and yet, this tomb was almost destroyed before estrada—belli or any other archaeologists were able to discover it. here is the tomb chamb...

To give up its secrets, and new technology has revealed that, despite decades of work, they have only begun to scratch the surface. theres a deep hole, and thats where theyre digging right now. car starting dont let me down. the maya city of holmul has been an obsession of archaeologist francisco estrada bellis for the last 20 years. he calls it the gift that keeps on giving. lets try not to get stuck. yeah. in recent years, his work has been aided by the use of lidar, a technology currently tra...

Because we can read the inscription. and yet, this tomb was almost destroyed before estrada belli, or any another archaeologist, were able to discover it. and here is the tomb chamber. wow. looters came and dug a hole right behind this doorway. and they missed by the structure with the frieze by 27 metres, ill show you. so thats the frieze right there... whoa! so thats the corner image of one of the dead kings. you can imagine what they would have done. they would have said, oh, my gosh, theres ...

In the last 20 years, some of the deadliest virus outbreaks have come from bats. sars, marburg, ebola. so what is it about these creatures and the way they spread pathogens that can be so dangerous? >> the fact that bats are carrying viruses is not in and of itself extraordinary. every animal has its normal suite of viruses and bacteria that it normally carries. people do as well. we carry viruses, we carry bacteria, the majority of which are benign or beneficial, some of which cause disease. it...

And more each year. >> in a lab, researchers in berkeley, california, are looking for clues on how to help humans fight viruses like covid-19. >> there is actually a lot we can learn from bats. this group of animals thats been around for millions of years. how can we look at their history with viruses and take that knowledge, and think about therapeutics and treatments for ourselves? >> what is it about bats that allows some of them to host these viruses, without showing any illness? >> thats th...

>> the same adaptation, also, favor them to carry virus. >> it doesnt appear that they get sick, or very sick, when they are carrying viruses that can be deadly in other people and animals. >> so, could studying bat immunology help us, humans, create possible treatments to fight this current and future pandemics? what do you think is the greatest challenge in terms of finding a treatment or cure for these viruses? >> well, to my mind, the greatest challenge is the number of unknown viruses that ...

Among bat researchers, there is a concern that humans will give covid-19 to bats. >> emerging infectious diseases can go both ways. right? we do know that some other animals can get covid-19. for instance, the tigers at the bronx zoo. >> for now, most research involving handling of bats across the u.s. has been put on hold, because currently humans are potentially the bigger threat to bats. want to sell the best burger in every zip code?

>> doctors feared the cluster of atypical pneumonia patients in wuhan might be infected with the same family of viruses that caused the outbreak of sars acute respiratory syndrome. >> more and more people were getting infected. we started to see on chinese social media in particular, the concern was growing. >> in new york, ecohealth alliance, a nonprofit organization devoted to tracking emerging diseases, began to take notice. >> we started to get our first inkling that something unusual was ha...

Considered one of the worlds top emerging disease experts, to find the source of the deadly outbreak. these virus hunters were pursuing a theory that bats could be the origin of sars. the team headed to the hunan region of southern china to try to solve the mystery of sars. >> shi and other researchers started exploring caves in southern china, looking for bats that could have been the origin of that first sars outbreak. >> dr. john epstein was a researcher on that expedition. >> when we go into...