Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish conquistador who was shipwrecked in Florida in 1527 and walked his way to Mexico. He and his companions were lost for 8 years! This is his story.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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The final chapter of How I Mapped Palenque! In this episode the team photo documents Palenque's hidden architecture, Ed drives an invisible car over the Belizean border, and three years of the Palenque Mapping Project comes to a celebratory end.

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Mayan Calendar - see the 2026 Mayan Calendar at https://www.mayan-calendar.com

Bars and Dots, Maya date calculator software - https://www.barsanddots.com

Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

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In this episode, the mapping crew explores eastern Palenque, finding a hidden waterfall and a massive building hiding right next to a tourist campground. They also have more run ins with the landowners of the west.

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Support ArchaeoEd through Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/archaeoed

Mayan Calendar - see the 2026 Mayan Calendar at https://www.mayan-calendar.com

Bars and Dots, Maya date calculator software - https://www.barsanddots.com

Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

https://www.youtube.com/@Ed_Barnhart