Spuren verlorener Städte mit Albert Lin

This show unfortunately is more entertainment than real archeology. I had high hopes when I read that he would be using Lidar but its been more hype than substance. Lin definitely likes his tech toys but I'm often not sure what real benefit some of them bring. The first episode he must have used the word "treasure" over twenty times. As a history buff I'd be far more excited by scrolls than gold. Still it's worth a watch and in truth no worse than most so called archeology shows today. Just don't expect any in depth searching. Other than the Lidar they never dig a site.

For the inquisitive mind this is above and beyond satisfying. The host asks all the right questions and arrives at grand discoveries. Some amazing architectural wonders that once we're. A totally mind opening and worthy show. Not to mention the host's phenomenal physical, mental and oral abilities. I watch a good amount of documentaries and a lot of National Geographic ones and this is quite captivating. Who wouldn't like to know about old civilizations and their lost cities?

Unfortunately, Lost Cities on Disney+ seems to be much ado about nothing... omg people lived here before us? And? Nothing is learned from this series. I love stuff like this, but it's a bit silly. Finding two similar symbols 2000 miles apart isn't insane. People were sailing 2000 years ago, but people act like our technology is so advanced that people of history were just hunter gatherers with no communication or network or travel or innovation. But one thing I've learned in my life is that where there's a will, there's a way... and without technology, you use whatever you have on hand, and you make it happen.

And these become the foundations of mysteries, mysteries that I think are not mysterious at all to anyone but the arrogant and the ignorant.

The host of this series asks no interesting questions and uncovers really nothing and the episodes go essentially, nowhere.

I honestly wanted to like this show. The host has absolutely no charisma, and what he does with the technology is inconsequential for the seemingly inauthentic reactions he gives.

I was surprised to find out this was produced under the National Geographic banner. Its that bad.

Lost Cities with Albert Lin doesn't incorporate much science or history. I don't know how he became the host of this series. He doesn't seem to have the background needed for a show like this - and neither do the writers. He likes trying to say dramatic things though. And he fails.

Albert Lin looks at a map and makes a ton of assumptions about what happened there - hundreds, thousands of years ago. He goes off a desert path, up a rocky hill, and is SURPRISED to find rocks and thorns. Yeah - he really does seem like an "indoor" type of guy. Worst - the science is lacking. Like when they find a skull in a "cave" on the side of a hill, its declared - with no investigation or evidence - that the skull predates the Incas. I guess its possible, but the trouble is - the area has been occupied by humans for thousands of years. How do they KNOW that the skull is that old?

The entire show operates like one of the Ghost Hunters. See an image on a screen. Go to that location. Make a bunch of assumptions. Pretend to be in awe.