National Native American Heritage Month
Part One of this series was posted on YouTube in October 2023 and is titled, “Apalache . . . Search for the Lost Cities of Gold.“
In celebration of National Native American Heritage Month, Architect Richard Thornton takes you on a guided tour of Georgia’s Nacoochee Valley. It is the largest and most densely occupied archaeological zone north of Mexico. You will see photographs and very sophisticated virtual reality images of the fascinating ancient architecture that he has discovered there during the past six years.
With LIDAR he discovered a mysterious earthwork under the mountainous tree canopy that is 2000 feet (610 m) North-South and 1200 feet (West-East) and up to 51 feet (15.5 m) tall. This documentary begins in March 2012, when the History Channel decided to fund a documentary on the Track Rock Terrace Complex, about 21 miles NW of the Nacoochee Valley.
You will learn the tragic secret held within the partially-burned cabin, where the highly successful premier of America Unearthed was filmed . . . and also about an unusual animal that supposedly only lives in the tropical lands of the Mayas, but also lived in the crawl space and garden of that cabin. You will see a petroglyph stone with identical symbols to those of Early Bronze Age Sweden and the portrayals of three types of European Bronze Age boats.
The program ends with virtual tours of five ancient structures in the Nacoochee Valley that change the history of North America. Part One of this two part series explained who the Apalache People were and how they gave their name to the Appalachian Mountains. It also described the research of several people in the decades between 1960 and 2012, whose investigations and hard work started unraveling the real history of the Americas.
The Americas Revealed 
Interesting Video Thanks Richard.
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And thank youj Rita for all your kind comments through the years.
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I always enjoy reading your posts Richard because, I have always been interested in the American Indian which obviously began way back as a youngster watching the Cowboy and Indian films. But I never realized there were so many tribes other than those they used to show on the films such as the Apache and a few others so, the rest I have learned from you. My late husband was a foundryman so he cast two lovely Indian feathered heads from Brass and I have many statues here in my study. I have always appreciated their way of life and beliefs although not the wars of course, but I suppose they were inevitable. Good luck with any further research Richard.
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Richard,
I thought you might appreciate the presentation below from the LOC in consideration of the serpent mound.
The Maya also had vested interests in coiled serpents (rattlesnakes) and the concept of time.
It seemed like there was an inverse mathematical relationship with the dimensions of the serpent mound, that hit very specific numbers with the ramp and perhaps beyond, these numbers were pretty interesting.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/interactives/heavens-and-earth/heavens/index.html
R/,
Zac
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