The Aquiry civilization

25:26geometric shapes. They're like They're like a square inside of a circle or I think it's a circle inside of a square. Um if you look over here, clearly human-made, right? [laughter] They're in a line. It it reminds you of sort of um Teotihuacan near Mexico City where the Pyramid of the Sun and things like that. It reminds you of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Th- This is sophisticated society, right? >> Y- For example, if anyone goes to Italy and you know, you go through any of the Do you see the roads? Do you see the grid system in some format? Different >> Right, right. And there's permutations and slight differences, but there's

26:07clearly a network because you people are trying to go from point A to point B and you start to see these and and the density, like you were saying, proximity because I'm not trying to go 2 mi to get to the pizza parlor. >> Yeah, exactly. And so I mean, it's incredible that they're finding this with lidar, right? >> Now, based on the calculations of the workforce that was necessary to create and maintain these earthworks, and that's that's where we get into what is the size of the economy? What is the size of the population? The researchers estimate that it's up to something like 3 million people could have lived in that tiny region. >> There's no way. >> Yeah, and and the little green dots that those are the those are the images that we saw earlier, right?

26:48This is a massive swath of rainforest. All of that rainforest looks exactly the same as this swath. This is a random spot that they picked. Right? So, if we were to extrapolate you can imagine just the many millions of people that are living in this in this part of the rainforest before Columbus showed up, before any of the Europeans showed up. And this is around 100 to 300 AD. Right? So, this is right after right after um death of Christ, like the start of the common era, right? Um if we talk about like when oh the timeline of American civilizations right?

27:30Um this would be right around So, the