In 2001, I was on a project to "open a wall in a Maya cave to discover the secrets that were hidden behind it" that was chronicled by Danish TV and newspaper through the DK Explorer. Unfortunately, we were not able to get permission from the village to enter the cave. It added lots of drama as we negotiated with the village to get in. That whole fiasco was an adventure and story in itself.
You can find a little more information at http://templehunter.dk/photo.htm if you scroll down to Ekspeditionen i 2001. I hope your Danish is good but you can see some photos there and might even recognize some Texas cavers. The rest of the website (http://templehunter.dk/) chronicles the adventures of the great Danish explorer Christian Christianson who travels to Guatemala in search of temples and caves. Christian is mostly a legend in his own mind but he does have a website and managed to come up with some money for us to work with for a while. There may be some information archived in DK Explorer website but having knowledge of Danish would help. Allan ----- Original Message ----- From: Mixon Bill To: Cavers Texas Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: [Texascavers] TV show featuring a cave with Maya wall ?? The AMCS has received the following query about a cave with an ancient Maya wall that was featured in a (Russian, I assume) TV show. I have replied that I have no idea which cave that might have been, and I included a PDF attachment of the article on Balancanche from AMCS Activites Newsletter 27 (2004), which is probably the most famous example of a cave with a wall behind which archaeologists found a lot of neat stuff. If anybody can help Vacheslav about the TV program, please do. I don't know whether the movie was made just for Russian TV or was something imported that you might have seen over here. I have seen no such video, but then I don't even have a TV. --Mixon Begin forwarded message: From: Вячеслав Бабышев <[email protected]> Date: April 26, 2011 8:51:15 AM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: ASSOCIATION FOR MEXICAN CAVE STUDIES Reply-To: Вячеслав Бабышев <[email protected]> Hello! I have a question about the Mayan archeology. In the mid 90's. I watched an interesting TV show. In it a group of people studied karst systems in the Yucatan. In the most profound and far from the surface of the cave they found a small, stuffy stones input (such as having the right kind of masonry), supposedly leading to the lower world (or sanctuary) Maya. This entry is supposed walled Mayan priests to keep out [of] a sacred space aliens (such as Spanish) when they invaded their land. Log razmurovyvat did not. On this TV show has ended. Information about this entry, I never found it. If you know something, please tell us: what was this cave and to actually lead this entry? Thank you in advance. ---------------------------------------- I'm walking down the street with Leonardo da Vinci. He says, "Yes, the things your science has created are indeed wonderful. You must explain to me how everything works." That's when I wake up. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: [email protected] AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected]
