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Another soundseeing podcast from the ruined world - the jungle around the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico. Nicco and I begin to see the ancient structures in the overgrown mounds and plazas. Dr Ed Barnhart of the Maya Exploration Center gives us a sense of the ruins still out there to be excavated and tells us how anyone can help explore and study them.

Still to come: a lesson in the Tzeltal Maya language from the birthday glyph girls, and a chat with Jan de Vos, historian of the Lacandon jungle and participant in the peace talks between the Zapatista rebels and the Mexican government.