What’s the secret path to Mayan afterlife?

This Thursday, Museum Secrets: Inside the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City airs on History Television. This episode contains six exciting stories, each of them an exclusive behind the scenes look at secrets of life - and death - in Mexico before the Mayans to after the Spanish conquest.

One of the episode’s stories explores mysterious skulls in the Museum that archaeologists believe could reveal the truth about Mayan rituals surrounding death.

Join Museum Secrets Executive Producer Robert Lang in our vlog from the shoot.

The Mayan skulls in the museum were discovered in the 1960′s in underground wells, and in order to find out whether the Mayans tossed their human sacrifices into these cenotes, we took one of the museum’s archaeologists into one of them.

Mayan Archaeologist Guillermo De Anda dove into a cenote to find out more about the secret path to Mayan afterlife. This is what he saw:

Pictured below, episode director Rebecca Snow leans on director of photography, Mark Caswell. They’re taking a rest after an exhausting ordeal, filming inside the cenote.

Watch the full episode to learn about the path to Mayan afterlife, this Thursday at 10 PM ET/PT on History Television Canada.