Why Are All The Maya Cities a Horizon’s Distance Apart?

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Watch the full BEST of JDP playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVgSCgghLiWTYAehl1l9uxYym9hgAG-hy&si=gDqBuiOib-yBQnku Julian Dorey’s full episode w/Luke Caverns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5x-YcFsK24 Luke Caverns drops a wild Maya theory you’re not supposed to hear: the pre-classic cities around El Mirador weren’t random—they were spaced at roughly a horizon’s distance so rulers could pass smoke/fire signals from pyramid to pyramid like a Lord-of-the-Rings beacon chain. He walks through the reality on the ground: twin mega-pyramids at El Mirador, a mile-long raised causeway between them, and an entire city sitting on a man-made platform in the middle of jungle that still feels endless today. Then he connects the dots to the Inca—mountain-top lookouts near Machu Picchu built to bounce signals across valleys—and shows how this “horizon web” can even predict where lost cities are. #podcastclips #history #mayacivilization