El Mirador

What the Show Claims

• ›Ancient Aliens proposes that El Mirador's massive scale and hidden location suggest it served purposes beyond conventional understanding, possibly as an alien observation or power generation site.

What Archaeology Says

El Mirador is one of the largest pre-Columbian sites in the Maya world, dating to the Late Preclassic period (600 BCE-100 CE). Archaeological evidence indicates it was a major ceremonial and political center before being mysteriously abandoned around 100 CE.