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That is the frieze right there. that's 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. he's 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 had a soul, including images of people and things. so when they were burying something, they would l...

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 chamber. wow. looters came and dug a hole right behind this doorway. and they mssed the structure with th...

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

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, i'll show you. so that's the frieze right there... whoa! so that's the corner image of one of the dead kings. you can imagine what they would have done. they would have said, oh, my gosh, there's definitely something cool behind this and they would just blast through it. it's all there and i...

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's the fact that bats do tend to carry a higher proportion of viruses that have the ability to infec...