I watched this movie with one of my sons yesterday. It was an interesting show. And that's all I expected from it, just entertainment. Considering the fact that The History Channel is just another source of entertainment anymore — "Pawn Stars" & the like — I was taken back a bit that anyone might have expected anything else. If this were a true discovery, I am sure actual news organizations would have picked it up. I mean the overhead shots of J. Turner's companion supposedly climbing the rock for the first was a big give away to me.
Through an attempt to find more pics of the "monument", I came across J. Turner's own website. I saw there that when asked, he blamed the "misinformation" in the movie on the History Channel & their editing. And when I asked about the differences between the computer mock-up and the monument, he claimed they must not have looked at his pictures. (It's how he explained away the fact that there were no gaps under the actual "jaguar's" legs, whereas the computer mock-up had them. I was confused because if the mock-up was correct & erosion was the issue, all we would be seeing of the "jaguar" would be its feet! I just did not understand how he saw what he claims to have seen.)
He also claimed that he argued against the boat trip.
His site has better pics that explain what he claims to see. But I still think this was a case of someone seeing what they wanted — pareidolia — as was suggested on the site by a different poster on the site.
He is now claiming that he has found the face of the "sun god" below the "monument" as if it fell off & then slid down the mountain, loose stone left over from the carving of the "monument" & other things. (I thought that stuff was usually removed from such sites after a carving was done, not left behind.) This is all supposed to be part of his movie sequel. I don’t like what seems to be another case of a lie being perpetrated. Some do believe in such things.
P.S.
Isn’t “don’t climb on the finds” like one of the first thing you learn in archeology 101?
