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Narrator: MACHU PICCHU,
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AN ANCIENT ABANDONED CITY
IN THE CLOUDS,
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THE JEWEL OF A LONG-LOST
CIVILIZATION --
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THE INCAS.
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THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THIS SITE
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HAS BEEN A MYSTERY
FOR CENTURIES,
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BUT TODAY, INVESTIGATORS
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ARE MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES
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THAT CHANGE OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF MACHU PICCHU.
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Bastante: EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT
IN MACHU PICCHU.
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EVERY MINUTE IS DIFFERENT
IN MACHU PICCHU.
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Narrator: THEIR BREAKTHROUGHS
ARE REWRITING THE HISTORY
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OF THESE ENIGMATIC RUINS.
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I THINK WE'RE STILL REALLY
AT THE VERY BEGINNING
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OF LEARNING ABOUT IT.
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Narrator:
NOW, ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE
THEY'RE ON THE VERGE
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OF CRACKING HIDDEN MESSAGES
THE INCAS LEFT BEHIND.
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Hyland: IF WE COULD UNDERSTAND
THIS CODE,
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IMAGINE WHAT WE COULD
LEARN ABOUT THE INCAS.
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Narrator: TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIES
OF MACHU PICCHU,
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WE'LL PULL APART
THIS CITY STONE-BY-STONE.
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WE'LL DIVE DEEP
THROUGH ITS WALLS
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AND TEMPLES TO UNEARTH
THE ASTONISHING SECRETS
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THAT LIE AT THE HEART
OF THIS FORGOTTEN WONDER.
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CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
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MACHU PICCHU IN PERU --
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LOST FOR CENTURIES,
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BEAUTIFUL AND AWE-INSPIRING.
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MODERN ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED
THESE ENIGMATIC RUINS
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MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO.
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TODAY, NEW IDEAS
ARE COMING TO LIGHT
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WHICH COULD CHANGE
OUR UNDERSTANDING
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OF WHY MACHU PICCHU IS HERE.
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Bastante: IF YOU THINK
ABOUT THE EFFORT AND THE SKILLS
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THAT THE INCAS
MUST HAVE HAD IN ORDER
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TO BUILD SOMETHING LIKE THIS
IN THIS EXACT SPOT
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MAKES IT ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE.
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Narrator: THE RUINS ARE PERCHED
ALONG A PERILOUS RIDGE
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BETWEEN TWO PROMINENT
MOUNTAIN PEAKS.
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STEPSTONE TERRACES CLING
TO THE STEEP MOUNTAINSIDE.
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MACHU PICCHU'S NEAR-PRISTINE
STONE BUILDINGS ARE PACKED
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FULL OF ANCIENT
INCA TECHNOLOGY.
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A MYSTERIOUS CURVED
BUILDING STANDS OUT
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IN THE GEOMETRIC CITYSCAPE.
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WHY IS IT SO DIFFERENT
FROM THE BUILDINGS AROUND IT?
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WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE
OF THIS CITY IN THE CLOUDS?
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THERE ARE MANY THEORIES --
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FROM A ROYAL PALACE
TO A TRADING HUB.
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JOSé BASTANTE IS MACHU PICCHU'S
CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST.
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HE BELIEVES THE ANSWER LIES
IN THE BUILDINGS THEMSELVES
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AND IS UNCOVERING EVIDENCE
THAT TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY.
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MOST OF THE THINGS GOING ON
IN MACHU PICCHU ARE RELATED
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TO THE CEREMONIAL PART.
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Narrator:
TEAMS OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE
INVESTIGATING EVERY STRUCTURE
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AT MACHU PICCHU,
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AND THEY'RE DISCOVERING
THAT MANY OF THE BUILDINGS
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SEEM TO ALIGN WITH
THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SUN.
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COULD THEY BE LINKED
TO THE INCA RELIGION?
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THE SUN IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT DEITY OF THE INCAS.
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Narrator: JOSé THINKS MANY
OF THE STRUCTURES HERE
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ARE DEDICATED TO THE SUN.
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ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING
IS THE CURIOUS BUILDING
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WITH THE UNIQUE
CURVED SIDES.
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STRIPPING AWAY THESE WALLS
REVEALS A VAST GRANITE BLOCK.
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BENEATH THIS FINELY
POLISHED ROCKY OUTCROP,
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A SMALL ROOM WITH MYSTERIOUS
NICHES IN THE WALLS.
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SOME OF THE FINEST INCA MASONRY
AT MACHU PICCHU FORMS
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THE TEMPLE'S CURVED SIDES.
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AND A MYSTERIOUS GROOVE
IN THE POLISHED ROCK ALIGNS
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WITH THE RISING SUN
ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE,
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THE SHORTEST DAY
OF THE YEAR.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS
THINK THAT THIS STRANGE
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BUILDING COULD BE
A TEMPLE TO MARK
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THE SACRED CYCLES OF THE SUN.
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JOSé BELIEVES THIS TEMPLE
ISN'T THE ONLY STRUCTURE
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TO LOOK TO THE SKIES.
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THIS STRANGE STONE
STICKING OUT OF THE BEDROCK
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IS KNOWN AS THE INTIWATANA.
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DID THIS PECULIAR STONE ALSO
PERFORM A RELIGIOUS FUNCTION?
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TODAY IS ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT SOLAR EVENTS
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IN THE INCA CALENDAR --
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THE EQUINOX,
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WHICH MARKS A CHANGE
IN THE SEASONS.
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ON MOST DAYS OF THE YEAR,
THE INTIWATANA STONE
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AND EVERYTHING AROUND IT,
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INCLUDING PEOPLE, CAST A SHADOW,
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BUT ON THE EQUINOX,
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AS THE SUN REACHES NOON,
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SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENS.
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THE INTIWATANA STONE'S
SHADOW DISAPPEARS.
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WAS IT DESIGNED TO MARK
THIS SPECIAL DAY?
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BECAUSE OF THE PARTICULAR SHAPE
AND ANGLES
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OF THIS LITHIC SCULPTURE
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THAT WE CALL INTIWATANA,
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THAT IS ACTUALLY AN ALTAR,
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THERE IS NO SHADOW CAST
DURING THE EQUINOXES.
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Narrator: SO HOW DID THEY DO IT?
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ALL ALONG THE EQUATOR,
ON THE EQUINOX,
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THE SUN PASSES
DIRECTLY OVERHEAD
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CAUSING SHADOWS ON THE GROUND
TO PRACTICALLY VANISH,
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BUT MACHU PICCHU IS 13 DEGREES
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
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WHERE THE SUN
IS NOT OVERHEAD.
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TO MARK THIS SPECIAL DAY,
THE INCAS MUST HAVE SCULPTED
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THE ROCK TO LEAN
AT PRECISELY 13 DEGREES
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SO THAT IT POINTS
DIRECTLY AT THE SUN.
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THESE STRUCTURES SEEM TO SUGGEST
THAT MACHU PICCHU
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IS A VATICAN CITY
IN THE CLOUDS,
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A PLACE WHERE THE INCA
COULD INTERACT WITH THEIR
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MOST IMPORTANT GOD --
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THE SUN.
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DID THE INCAS CHOOSE
THIS SITE HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS
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TO GET A BETTER VIEW
OF THE SKY?
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IT'S A TEMPTING THEORY,
BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM.
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MACHU PICCHU IS REGULARLY
SHROUDED IN CLOUD.
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SO WHY BUILD A TEMPLE COMPLEX
TO THE SUN HERE?
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JOSé BELIEVES A BRAND-NEW
DISCOVERY HELPS TO EXPLAIN
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WHY THE INCAS BUILT
THEIR SOLAR OBSERVATORY
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IN SUCH A CHALLENGING
ENVIRONMENT.
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THIS HUGE ROCKY OUTCROP
THAT RESEMBLES A MOUNTAIN
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IS A SHRINE.
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Narrator: THIS INCA SHRINE
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HAS CONCEALED ITS SECRETS
FOR DECADES.
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WHAT THEY DIDN'T REALIZE
IS THAT THERE WAS
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SOMETHING ELSE OVER HERE
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THAT THEY DIDN'T NOTICE,
AND WE HAVE JUST FOUND.
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Narrator: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT,
JOSé HAS UNCOVERED ARTWORK.
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WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS
TRADITIONALLY CALLED ROCK ART,
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BUT IN THE ANDES,
THIS IS A QUILCA.
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Narrator: JOSé DOESN'T THINK
THIS ROCK ART, OR QUILCA,
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WAS MADE BY THE INCAS
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AND COULD BE CENTURIES OLDER.
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Bastante: THESE GRAPHIC MOTIFS
HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP
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WHATSOEVER WITH
THE INCA CIVILIZATION
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DURING 15th AND 16th CENTURY.
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Narrator: MACHU PICCHU MOUNTAIN
MAY HAVE BEEN SACRED
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
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LONG BEFORE THE INCAS.
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Bastante: THIS IS AN EVIDENCE
OF PRESENCE
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OF PRE-INCA PEOPLE IN THE AREA.
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WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
BETWEEN 800 TO 1200 A.D.
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Narrator: NOW, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
BELIEVE THIS MYSTERIOUS PAINTING
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MIGHT BE A CLUE TO WHY THE INCAS
WERE DRAWN TO THIS REMOTE SITE.
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Bastante: WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING
IS THAT THIS PLACE
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WAS CONSIDERED AS SACRED
EVEN BEFORE THE INCAS.
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THE INCAS JUST ARRIVED
AND REALIZED
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THE SACREDNESS OF THE PLACE.
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Narrator: JOSé BELIEVES
MACHU PICCHU WAS BUILT HERE
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BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY
A SACRED SITE
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WITH AN ANCIENT
CONNECTION TO THE GODS.
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BUT DID THE INCAS
BUILD MACHU PICCHU
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SIMPLY TO WORSHIP THEIR GODS?
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OR IS THERE ANOTHER EXPLANATION
FOR THE CITY'S CONSTRUCTION?
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COULD THE ANSWER BE LOCKED AWAY
INSIDE THE SKELETONS
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OF MACHU PICCHU?
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Narrator: MACHU PICCHU
IS ONE
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OF THE MOST JAW-DROPPING SITES
IN THE WORLD.
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EACH YEAR, THIS ANCIENT
WONDER ATTRACTS
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NEARLY A MILLION VISITORS.
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BUT THE PURPOSE OF MACHU PICCHU
HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MYSTERY.
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SOME ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE
IT'S A RELIGIOUS SITE,
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BUT THERE ARE ENOUGH HOUSES
FOR MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE.
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WHY WERE THESE PEOPLE HERE,
AND WHAT DID THEY DO?
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I THINK WE'RE STILL REALLY
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AT THE VERY
BEGINNING OF LEARNING ABOUT IT.
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IN TERMS OF WHAT
DAILY LIFE WAS LIKE,
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WE'RE JUST SCRATCHING
THE SURFACE.
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Narrator: BEYOND THE IMPRESSIVE
TEMPLES
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AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES,
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THERE ARE MANY
PRACTICAL BUILDINGS.
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MORE THAN 140 HOUSES WERE HOME
TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED HERE,
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BUT WHO WERE THEY?
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS
SEARCHING FOR CLUES
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ON THE SLOPES BELOW THE HOUSES
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HAVE UNCOVERED
A GRUESOME SURPRISE.
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MORE THAN 170 SKELETONS LITTER
THE LANDSCAPE IN MAKESHIFT TOMBS
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COVERED WITH BOULDERS.
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COULD THESE HUMAN
REMAINS HOLD CLUES
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TO WHY MACHU PICCHU WAS BUILT?
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TODAY, THE SKELETONS LIE
IN THE PERUVIAN CITY OF CUZCO,
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THE INCA CAPITAL.
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RICHARD BURGER AND
LUCY SALAZAR ARE EXAMINING
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THE BONES FOUND AT MACHU PICCHU.
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SOME OF THE SKELETONS
HAVE DEFORMITIES,
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INCLUDING STRANGE
ELONGATED SKULLS.
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COULD THESE PROVIDE ANOTHER CLUE
TO WHY MACHU PICCHU WAS BUILT?
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RICHARD AND LUCY MEASURE
THE SHAPE OF THE SKULLS.
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THIS INTRIGUING SHAPE
IS NOT A NATURAL DEFORMITY.
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SOME ANCIENT PERUVIAN
COMMUNITIES WOULD BIND CLOTH
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AROUND THEIR CHILDREN'S HEADS
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TO CHANGE THE SHAPE
OF THEIR SKULLS
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AND MAKE THEM LOOK TALLER.
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BUT NOT EVERY SKULL HAS BEEN
DEFORMED IN THE SAME WAY
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OR AT ALL.
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WHY?
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RICHARD BELIEVES MACHU PICCHU
WAS A MELTING POT
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OF DIFFERENT CULTURES,
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DISPARATE PEOPLE
FROM ACROSS THE EMPIRE
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LIVING SIDE BY SIDE
IN ONE REMOTE PLACE.
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Burger: THE CRANIA OF THESE
SKELETONS HAD A VARIETY
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OF CRANIAL DEFORMATIONS,
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AND SINCE CRANIAL DEFORMATION
IN ANCIENT
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PERU WAS OFTEN
A MARKER OF ETHNICITY,
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IT IMPLIED THAT THE SKELETONS
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CAME FROM DIFFERENT
GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS.
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Narrator: RICHARD NEEDS
FURTHER EVIDENCE
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TO PROVE HIS THEORY,
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SO HE ANALYZES THE BONES
AT AN ATOMIC LEVEL.
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THERE ARE VARIOUS KINDS
OF ATOMIC STRUCTURES
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OF MOST ELEMENTS.
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DIFFERENT PLANTS WILL ABSORB
DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS OF THESE,
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AND THEN WHEN A HUMAN EATS THEM,
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THIS WILL BE REFLECTED
IN THEIR BONE COMPOSITION.
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Narrator: BY MEASURING CHEMICAL
TRACES IN THE BONES,
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RICHARD CAN WORK OUT
WHAT THESE INCAS WERE EATING
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WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE.
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USUALLY IN A SINGLE COMMUNITY,
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THERE WILL BE ONLY
A SMALL AMOUNT OF VARIATION.
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WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT THERE WAS
A HIGH DEGREE OF VARIABILITY
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IN THE READINGS.
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THESE PEOPLE HAD HAD
QUITE DIFFERENT DIETS
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DURING THEIR LIFETIMES.
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THESE PEOPLE COME
FROM DIFFERENT AREAS.
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Narrator: RICHARD BELIEVES
ONLY ONE PERSON
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HAD THE POWER TO ASSEMBLE
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SUCH A COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNITY --
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THE INCA EMPEROR.
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RATHER THAN BEING BUILT
FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES,
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RICHARD BELIEVES MACHU PICCHU
WAS MAINLY A ROYAL RESIDENCE.
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♪
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TODAY, HE'S SEARCHING
THE SITE FOR EVIDENCE
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OF THE EMPEROR'S PRESENCE.
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Burger:
WE BELIEVE THAT THE EMPEROR
WOULD HAVE LIVED HERE,
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THE SAPA INCA.
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IT'S VERY OFTEN REFERRED
TO AS THE HOUSES OF THE INCA.
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Narrator: THIS HOUSE IS SEPARATE
FROM OTHER BUILDINGS ON THE SITE
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AND HAS MANY LUXURIES
FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY.
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Burger: IT'S THE ONLY ONE
THAT SEEMS TO HAVE A BATH
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WITH ALL THE FRESHWATER
COMING DOWN FROM THE SPRING.
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IT HASN'T BEEN IN ANY WAY
TAMPERED WITH BY OTHERS.
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I THINK THE FACT THAT
THE EMPEROR'S HOUSE
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WAS NEXT TO THE TEMPLE
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OF THE SUN SUGGESTS
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THAT SACRED CHARACTER
OF THE EMPEROR
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IN EVERYTHING HE DID.
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Narrator: BUT IF MACHU PICCHU
IS A ROYAL PALACE,
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WHERE ARE THE REMAINS
OF THE GREAT EMPEROR
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THAT ONCE LIVED HERE?
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INCA BURIALS REVEAL A LOT
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ABOUT THE SOCIAL STATUS
OF THE DECEASED.
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HIGH-CLASS PEOPLE WERE
BURIED ALONGSIDE RICHES
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AND METAL OBJECTS, LIKE GOLD.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT INCAS,
THE EMPERORS,
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WERE EVEN MUMMIFIED
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AND PARADED
ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
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BUT AT MACHU PICCHU,
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND
FAR SIMPLER BURIALS IN CAVES.
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♪
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MOST OF THE SKELETONS
AT MACHU PICCHU
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ARE BURIED WITH GOODS
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THAT LINK THEM
TO LOWER-STATUS JOBS,
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LIKE A COOK'S POT
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OR THE REMAINS
OF A SHEPHERD'S LLAMA.
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IF THERE'S NO EVIDENCE
OF AN EMPEROR'S BURIAL
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OR MUMMY AT MACHU PICCHU,
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DID HE EVER LIVE HERE?
299
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RICHARD BELIEVES MACHU PICCHU
WAS BUILT AS A SECOND HOME
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FOR THE EMPEROR,
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A PLACE TO RELAX FAR AWAY
FROM THE INCA CAPITAL AT CUZCO.
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I DESCRIBED IT ONCE
AS A CAMP DAVID
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BECAUSE WE KNOW THE STRESSES
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OF BEING IN CHARGE
OF AN EMPIRE,
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00:16:53,344 --> 00:16:55,655
AND JUST BY ANALOGY
TO OTHER COUNTRIES,
306
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LIKE THE UNITED STATES,
307
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THE LEADER NEEDS TO GET AWAY
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AND, YOU KNOW,
RELAX EVERY NOW AND THEN.
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I WOULD IMAGINE THAT, YOU KNOW,
HE COULD HAVE COME HERE
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ONCE EVERY YEAR FOR A FEW WEEKS.
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♪
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Narrator: WAS MACHU PICCHU
AN INCA CAMP DAVID,
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A PLACE FOR THE EMPEROR TO RELAX
AND GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?
314
00:17:21,034 --> 00:17:24,206
IF IT WAS, THE INCAS FACED
AN INCREDIBLE CHALLENGE,
315
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BUILDING A PALACE FIT
FOR A KING HERE.
316
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MACHU PICCHU SITS ACROSS
TWO FAULT LINES,
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EXPERIENCING DOZENS
OF EARTHQUAKES
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AND HUNDREDS OF LANDSLIDES
EVERY YEAR.
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♪
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HOW DID THE INCAS BUILD
A SECOND HOME FOR THE EMPEROR
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00:17:46,310 --> 00:17:48,172
IN SUCH A HOSTILE PLACE?
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♪
323
00:17:49,724 --> 00:17:56,275
AND COULD
THESE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS
324
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CONCEAL ANCIENT MESSAGES
325
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FROM THE INCAS THEMSELVES?
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00:18:00,275 --> 00:18:03,275
♪
327
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♪
328
00:18:12,172 --> 00:18:14,931
Narrator: MACHU PICCHU
IS AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT
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OF ANCIENT ENGINEERING.
330
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IT SOARS ALMOST 8,000 FEET
ABOVE SEA LEVEL,
331
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WEDGED ON A RIDGE
BETWEEN TWO MOUNTAINS.
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♪
333
00:18:27,862 --> 00:18:34,103
EARTHQUAKES, LANDSLIDES,
AND FLOODS RAVAGE THE AREA.
334
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IT LOOKS LIKE THE MOST
IMPOSSIBLE PLACE
335
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FOR A CITY TO EXIST,
336
00:18:43,344 --> 00:18:47,137
BUT MACHU PICCHU
IS STILL STANDING.
337
00:18:47,172 --> 00:18:50,241
HOW DID THE INCAS BUILD A CITY
TO SURVIVE THE CENTURIES
338
00:18:50,275 --> 00:18:52,793
WITH ONLY STONE-AGE TECHNOLOGY?
339
00:18:59,206 --> 00:19:05,379
THE CLUES ARE HIDING IN THE
BUILDING BLOCKS OF MACHU PICCHU.
340
00:19:05,413 --> 00:19:08,517
THE HUNDREDS OF INCA BUILDINGS
THAT CROWN THE STEEP MOUNTAIN
341
00:19:08,551 --> 00:19:12,310
TOP ARE MADE FROM THOUSANDS
OF SUPER TOUGH GRANITE BLOCKS.
342
00:19:12,344 --> 00:19:15,068
♪
343
00:19:15,103 --> 00:19:16,931
BLOWING THE BUILDINGS APART
REVEALS
344
00:19:16,965 --> 00:19:20,827
THAT NO TWO BLOCKS ARE THE SAME.
345
00:19:20,862 --> 00:19:24,793
BUT THESE DRY-STONE WALLS
APPEAR NEAT AND STRAIGHT.
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00:19:24,827 --> 00:19:27,862
♪
347
00:19:27,896 --> 00:19:31,206
THE WEIRD ANGLES
AND ASYMMETRICAL STONES
348
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SLOT TOGETHER PERFECTLY.
349
00:19:34,931 --> 00:19:39,103
BUT WHY DID THE INCAS USE SUCH
STRANGE-SHAPED BUILDING BLOCKS?
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♪
351
00:19:43,655 --> 00:19:46,413
FERNANDO ASTETE IS
THE SITE'S DIRECTOR
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00:19:46,448 --> 00:19:49,758
AND HAS BEEN STUDYING
MACHU PICCHU FOR 30 YEARS.
353
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HE KNOWS EVERY STONE HERE
AND THINKS THE ANSWER
354
00:20:02,482 --> 00:20:05,103
TO WHY THEY'RE SUCH
STRANGE SHAPES LIES
355
00:20:05,137 --> 00:20:08,586
JUST ABOVE THE CITY
CENTER IN A QUARRY.
356
00:20:31,965 --> 00:20:35,344
BECAUSE GRANITE IS SO TOUGH,
FERNANDO THINKS THE INCAS
357
00:20:35,379 --> 00:20:38,000
WOULD CHIP AWAY
AT NATURAL WEAK POINTS
358
00:20:38,034 --> 00:20:40,689
AND WORK WITH THE NATURAL
SHAPE OF THE ROCK
359
00:20:40,724 --> 00:20:43,896
RATHER THAN FORCE THE STONE
INTO REGULAR BRICKS.
360
00:20:59,724 --> 00:21:04,827
BUT UNEVEN BLOCKS COME
WITH THEIR OWN CHALLENGES.
361
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IF THESE STONES
WERE SIMPLY STACKED,
362
00:21:07,206 --> 00:21:09,413
THE ODDLY SHAPED BLOCKS
363
00:21:09,448 --> 00:21:14,724
WOULD HAVE FORMED
UNSTABLE WALLS.
364
00:21:14,758 --> 00:21:17,448
SO THE INCAS MUST HAVE
CAREFULLY MATCHED AND POUNDED
365
00:21:17,482 --> 00:21:19,482
EACH STONE ACCORDING
366
00:21:19,517 --> 00:21:22,000
TO THE EXACT SHAPE
OF ITS NEIGHBORS.
367
00:21:24,965 --> 00:21:30,586
DURING AN EARTHQUAKE, THE STONES
ARE FREE TO BOUNCE AROUND
368
00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:36,275
BEFORE SETTLING BACK
INTO THEIR PERFECT POSITION.
369
00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:39,551
IT'S A GREAT THEORY,
BUT GRANITE IS INCREDIBLY STRONG
370
00:21:39,586 --> 00:21:42,379
AND DIFFICULT TO WORK.
371
00:21:42,413 --> 00:21:47,103
MOST STONE TOOLS WOULD BREAK
AGAINST ITS TOUGH SURFACE.
372
00:21:47,137 --> 00:21:50,241
HOW DID THE INCA SHAPE THIS ROCK
WITH SUCH PRECISION,
373
00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:51,965
THAT IN MANY PLACES
YOU CAN'T FIT
374
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A RAZOR BLADE
BETWEEN THE STONES?
375
00:21:56,448 --> 00:21:58,862
FERNANDO BELIEVES THE KEY
TO MACHU PICCHU'S
376
00:21:58,896 --> 00:22:00,310
METICULOUS CONSTRUCTION
377
00:22:00,344 --> 00:22:03,206
CAN BE FOUND LYING
ON THE GROUND...
378
00:22:03,241 --> 00:22:06,172
♪
379
00:22:06,206 --> 00:22:09,931
A HEAVY IRON-RICH ROCK
CALLED HEMATITE,
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00:22:09,965 --> 00:22:12,137
A NATURAL IRON HAMMER.
381
00:22:38,758 --> 00:22:42,344
FERNANDO'S EXPERIMENTS SHOW THAT
THE INCAS COULD USE HEMATITE
382
00:22:42,379 --> 00:22:44,103
TO SHAPE THE TOUGH
GRANITE BLOCKS
383
00:22:44,137 --> 00:22:46,413
WITH GREAT PRECISION,
384
00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:48,379
BUT IT WAS SLOW WORK.
385
00:22:59,137 --> 00:23:02,620
FERNANDO BELIEVES MACHU PICCHU
WAS ONLY POSSIBLE
386
00:23:02,655 --> 00:23:04,517
BECAUSE THE MOUNTAINS THEMSELVES
387
00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,689
ARE NATURAL QUARRIES
OF EARTHQUAKE-PROOF GRANITE.
388
00:23:07,724 --> 00:23:11,344
♪
389
00:23:11,379 --> 00:23:13,241
THE INCAS FOUND
ALL THE MATERIALS
390
00:23:13,275 --> 00:23:14,862
TO BUILD A CITY OF HOUSES
391
00:23:14,896 --> 00:23:17,551
AND EXQUISITE
TEMPLES RIGHT HERE.
392
00:23:17,586 --> 00:23:21,034
♪
393
00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:24,896
BUT LIVING ON
A MOUNTAINTOP IS HARD.
394
00:23:24,931 --> 00:23:29,137
SHEER CLIFFS SURROUND
THE SITE ON THREE SIDES.
395
00:23:29,172 --> 00:23:32,586
THERE ARE NO FIELDS TO PLOW.
396
00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:35,172
HOW DID THE PEOPLE
OF MACHU PICCHU SURVIVE
397
00:23:35,206 --> 00:23:37,379
IN SUCH A REMOTE LOCATION?
398
00:23:37,413 --> 00:23:40,413
♪
399
00:23:46,241 --> 00:23:49,793
♪
400
00:23:49,827 --> 00:23:54,379
Narrator: MACHU PICCHU IS A CITY
ON THE EDGE.
401
00:23:54,413 --> 00:23:57,000
BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HOUSES
ON THE SITE,
402
00:23:57,034 --> 00:23:58,241
ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE
403
00:23:58,275 --> 00:23:59,724
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN 500
404
00:23:59,758 --> 00:24:01,758
OR MORE PEOPLE LIVING HERE.
405
00:24:01,793 --> 00:24:04,241
♪
406
00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:08,000
BUT SURROUNDED ON THREE SIDES
BY SHEER CLIFFS,
407
00:24:08,034 --> 00:24:11,379
HEAVY RAINS AND LANDSLIDES
WASH AWAY ANY SOIL DOWN
408
00:24:11,413 --> 00:24:13,965
THE STEEP MOUNTAIN SLOPES.
409
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,793
WITHOUT FLAT FIELDS
FOR GROWING CROPS OR LIVESTOCK,
410
00:24:17,827 --> 00:24:19,620
HOW DID THE INCAS
FEED THEMSELVES
411
00:24:19,655 --> 00:24:23,896
IN SUCH A REMOTE
AND INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT?
412
00:24:23,931 --> 00:24:28,793
THE LIMITED QUANTITY OF WATER,
THE DIFFICULT ACCESS, OF COURSE,
413
00:24:28,827 --> 00:24:31,862
IS A VERY
DIFFICULT AREA TO WORK.
414
00:24:31,896 --> 00:24:34,965
♪
415
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,172
Narrator: THE INCAS SURROUNDED
MACHU PICCHU WITH TERRACES
416
00:24:38,206 --> 00:24:39,793
TO STABILIZE THE HILLSIDE
417
00:24:39,827 --> 00:24:42,379
AND CREATE FOUNDATIONS
FOR BUILDINGS.
418
00:24:45,793 --> 00:24:48,896
INSIDE THESE STEP STRUCTURES,
THERE'S A SURPRISING LEVEL
419
00:24:48,931 --> 00:24:52,965
OF COMPLEX INCA TECHNOLOGY.
420
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,448
THE INCAS CAREFULLY LAID
DISTINCT LAYERS OF GRAVEL
421
00:24:56,482 --> 00:25:01,724
AND STONES OF DIFFERENT
SIZES THROUGHOUT EVERY TERRACE,
422
00:25:01,758 --> 00:25:04,551
BUT WHAT WERE THESE LAYERS FOR?
423
00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:07,758
A CLUE RESTS ON TOP --
424
00:25:07,793 --> 00:25:12,517
A FLAT LAYER OF FINE SOIL
THAT CAN'T BE WASHED AWAY.
425
00:25:12,551 --> 00:25:16,517
COULD THESE THIN STRIPS ALSO BE
THE FIELDS THAT FED A CITY?
426
00:25:19,620 --> 00:25:21,862
♪
427
00:25:21,896 --> 00:25:26,896
A CLUE LIES IN THE LAYOUT
OF MACHU PICCHU.
428
00:25:26,931 --> 00:25:31,206
ONE HALF IS FILLED
WITH TEMPLES AND HOUSES.
429
00:25:31,241 --> 00:25:34,172
THE OTHER HAS VIRTUALLY
NO BUILDINGS AT ALL.
430
00:25:34,206 --> 00:25:37,551
♪
431
00:25:37,586 --> 00:25:42,344
THESE EMPTY TERRACES LOOK
LIKE FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDINGS,
432
00:25:42,379 --> 00:25:45,034
BUT CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST
JOSé BASTANTE
433
00:25:45,068 --> 00:25:50,034
BELIEVES THIS SLOPE
IS THE INCA SOLUTION TO FARMING.
434
00:25:50,068 --> 00:25:53,000
IN THIS PART,
IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
435
00:25:53,034 --> 00:25:54,896
OF MACHU PICCHU,
THERE'S NO ISSUE
436
00:25:54,931 --> 00:25:57,103
WITH WATER INFILTRATION
437
00:25:57,137 --> 00:26:01,827
OR WATER COMING OUT.
438
00:26:01,862 --> 00:26:03,689
Narrator: JOSé BELIEVES
THE MULTIPLE LAYERS
439
00:26:03,724 --> 00:26:06,448
OF ROCK INSIDE
THESE TERRACES ALLOWED WATER
440
00:26:06,482 --> 00:26:09,931
TO DRAIN THROUGH WITHOUT
DISRUPTING THE TOPSOIL,
441
00:26:09,965 --> 00:26:14,206
PROVIDING A STABLE
PLATFORM FOR CROPS.
442
00:26:14,241 --> 00:26:16,551
BUT TO LIVE ON
THIS ROCKY MOUNTAINTOP,
443
00:26:16,586 --> 00:26:20,448
THE INCA ALSO NEEDED A CONSTANT
CLEAN SUPPLY OF DRINKING WATER
444
00:26:20,482 --> 00:26:24,206
AND SACRED WATER FOR RITUALS.
445
00:26:24,241 --> 00:26:28,620
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A SPRING,
THERE'S NO LIFE.
446
00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:31,551
Narrator: THE INCAS FOUND
A NATURAL SPRING HERE,
447
00:26:31,586 --> 00:26:33,793
WHICH THEY CONSIDERED SACRED,
448
00:26:33,827 --> 00:26:36,448
A GIFT FROM THE MOUNTAIN.
449
00:26:36,482 --> 00:26:39,793
BUT HOW COULD THIS SMALL
SPRING SERVE A WHOLE CITY?
450
00:26:39,827 --> 00:26:43,655
♪
451
00:26:43,689 --> 00:26:48,379
THIS SURPRISING FRESHWATER
SOURCE COMES FROM RAINWATER.
452
00:26:48,413 --> 00:26:51,965
IT FILTERS THROUGH THE FRACTURES
IN THE ROCK AND ERUPTS
453
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,103
IN SPRINGS
ALONG THE MOUNTAINSIDE.
454
00:26:55,137 --> 00:26:58,655
THE INCAS BUILT STONE CHANNELS
INTO THE TERRACES,
455
00:26:58,689 --> 00:27:01,793
WHICH DELIVERED RUNNING WATER
FROM THE MOUNTAIN SPRING
456
00:27:01,827 --> 00:27:04,482
TO 16 FOUNTAINS ACROSS THE CITY.
457
00:27:04,517 --> 00:27:06,206
♪
458
00:27:06,241 --> 00:27:08,034
Bastante: THE WATER
THAT WE SEE HERE,
459
00:27:08,068 --> 00:27:10,931
IT'S COMING FROM A SPRING
MORE THAN 700 METERS AWAY.
460
00:27:10,965 --> 00:27:13,827
IT WAS CHANNELED BY THE INCAS,
461
00:27:13,862 --> 00:27:17,413
CROSSES ALL THE AGRICULTURAL
AREA OF MACHU PICCHU
462
00:27:17,448 --> 00:27:19,689
AND ENTERS THE URBAN AREA.
463
00:27:19,724 --> 00:27:22,068
♪
464
00:27:22,103 --> 00:27:24,931
THIS WATER IS USED FOR DRINKING,
465
00:27:24,965 --> 00:27:28,758
FOR COOKING, AND ALSO
FOR CEREMONIAL PURPOSES.
466
00:27:28,793 --> 00:27:31,068
Narrator: THE INCA ENGINEERED
A CLEVER SOLUTION
467
00:27:31,103 --> 00:27:32,482
TO BRING THIS SACRED WATER
468
00:27:32,517 --> 00:27:34,827
TO THE URBAN SECTOR
OF MACHU PICCHU.
469
00:27:34,862 --> 00:27:37,793
♪
470
00:27:37,827 --> 00:27:42,620
BUT THIS INCA MASONRY
IS VULNERABLE.
471
00:27:42,655 --> 00:27:45,137
IN A LANDSCAPE RAVAGED
BY EARTHQUAKES,
472
00:27:45,172 --> 00:27:48,172
ANY DAMAGE TO THESE WATER
CHANNELS COULD FLOOD THE SACRED
473
00:27:48,206 --> 00:27:51,724
BUILDINGS AROUND THEM.
474
00:27:51,758 --> 00:27:55,344
Bastante: WE HAVE THE PART OF
THE CHANNEL ON THE URBAN SECTOR,
475
00:27:55,379 --> 00:27:57,965
THAT THE INCAS CANNOT
AFFORD WATER INFILTRATION
476
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,620
BECAUSE THAT WILL AFFECT
THE STRUCTURES IN ONE
477
00:28:02,655 --> 00:28:04,448
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTORS
478
00:28:04,482 --> 00:28:08,034
THAT IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE SUN AREA.
479
00:28:08,068 --> 00:28:13,448
Narrator:
HOW DID THE INCAS ENSURE
THIS CHANNEL NEVER LEAKED?
480
00:28:13,482 --> 00:28:16,379
JOSé THINKS THESE STRANGELY
CARVED BLOCKS SCATTERED
481
00:28:16,413 --> 00:28:19,448
AROUND THE SITE
COULD HOLD A CLUE.
482
00:28:19,482 --> 00:28:21,793
Bastante: THESE STONES HAVE
BEEN ALWAYS HERE,
483
00:28:21,827 --> 00:28:25,068
AND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
A MYSTERY WHAT THEY WERE FOR.
484
00:28:25,103 --> 00:28:29,413
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY THEORIES,
BUT FINALLY,
485
00:28:29,448 --> 00:28:33,000
WE HAVE FIGURED IT OUT.
486
00:28:33,034 --> 00:28:35,068
Narrator: THIS SMOOTH CHANNEL
APPEARS TO BE DESIGNED
487
00:28:35,103 --> 00:28:37,103
TO CARRY WATER.
488
00:28:37,137 --> 00:28:41,413
WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE
ARE REMEASURING THEM TO SEE
489
00:28:41,448 --> 00:28:46,413
WHERE WILL THEY EVENTUALLY GO.
490
00:28:46,448 --> 00:28:49,517
Narrator: JOSé BELIEVES THESE
CARVED CHANNELS WERE DESIGNED
491
00:28:49,551 --> 00:28:51,482
TO CARRY WATER,
492
00:28:51,517 --> 00:28:52,931
BUT NOT HERE.
493
00:28:52,965 --> 00:28:57,310
♪
494
00:28:57,344 --> 00:28:59,827
Bastante: WE MEASURE THE LENGTH
OF ALL OF THEM,
495
00:28:59,862 --> 00:29:02,000
AND WE MEASURE THE LENGTH
496
00:29:02,034 --> 00:29:04,344
OF THE PART
OF THE CHANNEL
497
00:29:04,379 --> 00:29:07,448
THAT IS ALREADY INSIDE
THE URBAN SECTOR,
498
00:29:07,482 --> 00:29:12,206
AND IT BASICALLY MATCHES
THE LENGTH REQUIRED.
499
00:29:12,241 --> 00:29:15,862
NOW, WE KNOW THAT
THESE GRANITE STONES
500
00:29:15,896 --> 00:29:18,724
WERE GOING TO REPLACE
THE PART OF THE CHANNEL
501
00:29:18,758 --> 00:29:21,862
THAT IS INSIDE THE URBAN SECTOR
OF MACHU PICCHU.
502
00:29:21,896 --> 00:29:24,827
♪
503
00:29:24,862 --> 00:29:26,344
Narrator: IF AN EARTHQUAKE
DAMAGED
504
00:29:26,379 --> 00:29:28,172
THE CRUCIAL URBAN WATER CHANNEL,
505
00:29:28,206 --> 00:29:29,448
REPLACEMENT STONES
506
00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:34,862
COULD EASILY SNAP INTO PLACE
AROUND THE TEMPLES.
507
00:29:34,896 --> 00:29:38,172
THE INCAS HAD A NEW SET
OF STONES READY TO GO.
508
00:29:38,206 --> 00:29:40,310
♪
509
00:29:40,344 --> 00:29:42,724
THIS BRAND-NEW
DISCOVERY IS EVIDENCE
510
00:29:42,758 --> 00:29:44,275
THAT THE INCAS WERE MAINTAINING
511
00:29:44,310 --> 00:29:48,793
AND IMPROVING MACHU PICCHU
ALL THE TIME.
512
00:29:48,827 --> 00:29:50,827
THROUGH EFFECTIVE WATER
MANAGEMENT,
513
00:29:50,862 --> 00:29:53,517
THE INCAS COULD KEEP
THEIR POPULATION ALIVE
514
00:29:53,551 --> 00:29:55,827
AND PROTECT THEIR
SACRED BUILDINGS.
515
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,344
BUT THERE'S ANOTHER
UNSOLVED MYSTERY.
516
00:30:02,379 --> 00:30:06,896
RECENTLY, SOME ARCHAEOLOGISTS
HAVE CALCULATED THAT THE 500
517
00:30:06,931 --> 00:30:09,896
OR MORE INHABITANTS
OF THIS MOUNTAIN CITY
518
00:30:09,931 --> 00:30:13,413
COULDN'T SURVIVE ON THE FOOD
AND WATER HERE ALONE.
519
00:30:15,724 --> 00:30:20,206
MACHU PICCHU MUST HAVE
HAD RELIED ON IMPORTS.
520
00:30:20,241 --> 00:30:23,586
BUT HOW DID
THE SUPPLIES GET HERE?
521
00:30:23,620 --> 00:30:27,241
AFTER ALL, THE CITY
IS FAMOUS FOR ITS ISOLATION,
522
00:30:27,275 --> 00:30:28,896
CUT OFF BY SHEER CLIFFS,
523
00:30:28,931 --> 00:30:31,517
STEEP MOUNTAINS
AND THICK FOREST.
524
00:30:31,551 --> 00:30:34,310
♪
525
00:30:34,344 --> 00:30:37,689
IS NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT TO TURN
EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT WE KNEW
526
00:30:37,724 --> 00:30:40,482
ABOUT MACHU PICCHU
ON ITS HEAD?
527
00:30:40,517 --> 00:30:43,517
♪
528
00:30:50,103 --> 00:30:52,034
♪
529
00:30:52,068 --> 00:30:54,724
Narrator: MACHU PICCHU APPEARS
TO BE CUT OFF
530
00:30:54,758 --> 00:30:57,586
FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
531
00:30:57,620 --> 00:31:00,000
THE INCAS ENGINEERED
COMPLEX STRUCTURES
532
00:31:00,034 --> 00:31:03,000
TO FEED THE PEOPLE
THAT LIVED HERE.
533
00:31:03,034 --> 00:31:07,137
♪
534
00:31:07,172 --> 00:31:09,758
BUT ARCHAEOLOGISTS DON'T
THINK MACHU PICCHU
535
00:31:09,793 --> 00:31:11,310
WOULD HAVE PRODUCED ENOUGH FOOD
536
00:31:11,344 --> 00:31:13,517
TO KEEP THE WHOLE
POPULATION ALIVE.
537
00:31:13,551 --> 00:31:16,586
♪
538
00:31:18,448 --> 00:31:21,241
THE INCAS MUST HAVE ALSO
BROUGHT FOOD TO THIS
539
00:31:21,275 --> 00:31:23,620
ISOLATED MOUNTAINTOP,
540
00:31:23,655 --> 00:31:26,034
BUT FROM WHERE?
541
00:31:26,068 --> 00:31:31,172
JOSé THINKS THERE ARE CLUES
ALL ACROSS THE SITE.
542
00:31:31,206 --> 00:31:33,758
Bastante: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE THAT WE'RE GETTING
543
00:31:33,793 --> 00:31:35,965
ARE GIVING US
A MUCH MORE COMPLEX IDEA
544
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
OF WHAT MACHU PICCHU FUNCTIONS
545
00:31:38,034 --> 00:31:41,241
WERE DURING ITS SHORT LIFETIME.
546
00:31:41,275 --> 00:31:45,068
♪
547
00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:47,241
Narrator: HIDDEN BEHIND
MACHU PICCHU'S MAIN
548
00:31:47,275 --> 00:31:50,793
GATE STANDS
A MYSTERIOUS BUILDING.
549
00:31:50,827 --> 00:31:54,655
MOST INCA HOUSES
WERE SINGLE-STORY,
550
00:31:54,689 --> 00:31:56,068
BUT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
551
00:31:56,103 --> 00:31:59,620
SUGGESTS THIS TALL STRUCTURE
CARRIED A SECOND FLOOR.
552
00:31:59,655 --> 00:32:02,103
♪
553
00:32:02,137 --> 00:32:08,000
THESE WALLS ONCE SUPPORTED ROWS
OF GIANT WOODEN BEAMS,
554
00:32:08,034 --> 00:32:12,206
STEEPLY ANGLED TO CREATE
A HIGH ROOF COVERED WITH THATCH.
555
00:32:12,241 --> 00:32:15,931
♪
556
00:32:15,965 --> 00:32:20,068
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THIS WAS
A MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL STOREHOUSE
557
00:32:20,103 --> 00:32:22,620
FOR IMPORTED FOOD,
558
00:32:22,655 --> 00:32:24,034
BUT IF IT WAS,
559
00:32:24,068 --> 00:32:26,000
WHERE DID THE SUPPLIES COME FROM
560
00:32:26,034 --> 00:32:30,448
AND HOW DID THEY GET HERE?
561
00:32:30,482 --> 00:32:34,275
JOSé BASTANTE IS CONVINCED
THAT MACHU PICCHU WAS KEPT ALIVE
562
00:32:34,310 --> 00:32:37,689
THANKS TO A VAST NETWORK
OF ROADS CONNECTING IT
563
00:32:37,724 --> 00:32:40,827
TO THE FARMS
OF THE WIDER EMPIRE,
564
00:32:40,862 --> 00:32:42,758
AND HE THINKS EVIDENCE
OF THESE ROADS
565
00:32:42,793 --> 00:32:45,620
COULD STILL EXIST TODAY.
566
00:32:45,655 --> 00:32:47,620
WE'RE STILL DISCOVERING
NEW INCA ROADS
567
00:32:47,655 --> 00:32:49,931
WITHIN THE SANCTUARY BORDERS.
568
00:32:51,965 --> 00:32:55,379
Narrator: TO FIND THESE ROADS,
JOSé LOOKS FOR UNUSUAL ENTRANCES
569
00:32:55,413 --> 00:32:57,068
AROUND THE EDGES
OF MACHU PICCHU
570
00:32:57,103 --> 00:33:00,034
THAT DON'T APPEAR
TO LEAD ANYWHERE,
571
00:33:00,068 --> 00:33:02,482
LIKE THIS STAIRCASE.
572
00:33:02,517 --> 00:33:04,172
Bastante: THIS STAIRCASE
WAS ALWAYS A MYSTERY.
573
00:33:04,206 --> 00:33:06,517
WE DIDN'T KNOW REALLY
WHERE IT WAS COMING FROM,
574
00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:09,379
BUT RECENTLY,
WE JUST FIGURED IT OUT.
575
00:33:09,413 --> 00:33:11,103
WE FOUND THE ROAD.
576
00:33:11,137 --> 00:33:15,206
THE ONLY ISSUE IS THAT THE ROAD
HAS COLLAPSED AT CERTAIN POINTS,
577
00:33:15,241 --> 00:33:17,137
SO WE CANNOT
FOLLOW IT COMPLETELY.
578
00:33:25,896 --> 00:33:27,758
♪
579
00:33:27,793 --> 00:33:29,482
Narrator: TODAY, JOSé'S TEAM
580
00:33:29,517 --> 00:33:32,275
IS INVESTIGATING
A NEWLY DISCOVERED TRAIL.
581
00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:36,310
♪
582
00:33:36,344 --> 00:33:39,034
HE BELIEVES THIS IS
THE FIRST TIME THIS ROAD
583
00:33:39,068 --> 00:33:42,965
HAS BEEN EXPLORED FOR CENTURIES.
584
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,103
Bastante: NEXT TO
MACHU PICCHU CITY,
585
00:33:44,137 --> 00:33:46,655
WE HAVE PROBABLY FOUND
ALL THE ROADS,
586
00:33:46,689 --> 00:33:48,172
BUT IN THE AREA,
587
00:33:48,206 --> 00:33:50,482
THERE ARE STILL MANY ROADS
588
00:33:50,517 --> 00:33:54,103
TO BE FOUND LOST
IN THE VEGETATION.
589
00:33:54,137 --> 00:33:56,655
Narrator: SO FAR,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNCOVERED
590
00:33:56,689 --> 00:33:58,068
A WEB OF EIGHT ROADS
591
00:33:58,103 --> 00:33:59,896
LEADING INTO MACHU PICCHU.
592
00:33:59,931 --> 00:34:02,793
♪
593
00:34:02,827 --> 00:34:06,379
THESE PROBABLY BROUGHT SUPPLIES
TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE.
594
00:34:06,413 --> 00:34:10,034
BUT JOSé BELIEVES THEY MAY
ALSO EXPLAIN ANOTHER KEY REASON
595
00:34:10,068 --> 00:34:14,103
WHY MACHU PICCHU WAS BUILT HERE
IN THE FIRST PLACE.
596
00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:16,448
Bastante: MACHU PICCHU IS
STRATEGICALLY LOCATED BETWEEN
597
00:34:16,482 --> 00:34:17,931
THE ANDES AND THE AMAZON,
598
00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:20,137
ADMINISTERING A HUGE TERRITORY.
599
00:34:20,172 --> 00:34:22,241
THE PRODUCTS ARE PASSING
BY THROUGH HERE,
600
00:34:22,275 --> 00:34:23,448
THE ADMINISTRATION
601
00:34:23,482 --> 00:34:26,172
AND THE POLITICAL DECISIONS
602
00:34:26,206 --> 00:34:29,862
ARE COMING FROM HERE
REGARDING THIS TRADE.
603
00:34:29,896 --> 00:34:33,103
♪
604
00:34:33,137 --> 00:34:35,862
Narrator: JOSé BELIEVES
MACHU PICCHU WAS AN IMPORTANT
605
00:34:35,896 --> 00:34:39,275
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER,
606
00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:41,379
A HUB TO CONTROL
THE MOVEMENT OF GOODS
607
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:44,241
AND PEOPLE
608
00:34:44,275 --> 00:34:46,724
AND AN EASTERN
OUTPOST KEEPING TABS
609
00:34:46,758 --> 00:34:49,344
ON THE EXPANDING EMPIRE.
610
00:34:49,379 --> 00:34:56,000
THE INCA ROADS ARE THE VERTEBRAL
SPINE OF THE EMPIRE.
611
00:34:56,034 --> 00:34:59,241
Narrator: THESE ANCIENT HIGHWAYS
WERE HIGHLY ENGINEERED
612
00:34:59,275 --> 00:35:02,413
WITH STEPS CUT DIRECTLY
INTO THE MOUNTAINS
613
00:35:02,448 --> 00:35:03,517
AND ROPE BRIDGES
614
00:35:03,551 --> 00:35:06,965
THAT STRETCHED ACROSS
PERILOUS RAVINES.
615
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,068
THE INCAS STAGGERED REST STOPS
A DAY'S HIKE APART.
616
00:35:11,103 --> 00:35:13,068
THESE ACTED AS CHECKPOINTS,
617
00:35:13,103 --> 00:35:17,482
KEEPING ACCESS TO THE ROADS
UNDER STRICT CONTROL.
618
00:35:17,517 --> 00:35:19,655
AND OFFICIAL RUNNERS,
CALLED CHASQUI,
619
00:35:19,689 --> 00:35:23,068
COULD MOVE BETWEEN
INCA SITES IN RELAYS,
620
00:35:23,103 --> 00:35:27,896
COVERING OVER 1,000 MILES
ON FOOT IN LESS THAN A WEEK.
621
00:35:27,931 --> 00:35:32,068
IN JUST 100 YEARS,
THE INCA EMPIRE GREW MASSIVELY,
622
00:35:32,103 --> 00:35:35,586
BUILDING 25,000 MILES OF ROAD,
623
00:35:35,620 --> 00:35:38,896
LONG ENOUGH TO WRAP
AROUND THE WHOLE EARTH.
624
00:35:41,206 --> 00:35:44,931
ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE IT WAS
THE INCA EMPEROR PACHACUTI
625
00:35:44,965 --> 00:35:47,000
WHO EXTENDED THE REACH
OF INCA INFLUENCE
626
00:35:47,034 --> 00:35:50,206
ACROSS MUCH OF THE CONTINENT.
627
00:35:50,241 --> 00:35:53,137
PACHACUTI IS THE TRANSFORMER
OF THE WORLD,
628
00:35:53,172 --> 00:35:57,000
IS THE ONE THAT STARTED
THE EXPANSION OUTSIDE OF CUZCO
629
00:35:57,034 --> 00:36:00,586
AND EVENTUALLY MANAGED
TO CONQUER
630
00:36:00,620 --> 00:36:03,034
A HUGE AMOUNT OF TERRITORY,
631
00:36:03,068 --> 00:36:04,724
PART OF ECUADOR,
COLOMBIA,
632
00:36:04,758 --> 00:36:08,068
PERU, BOLIVIA,
ARGENTINA AND CHILE.
633
00:36:08,103 --> 00:36:13,586
Narrator: THE INCA TRAILS WERE
KEY TO PACHACUTI'S SUCCESS.
634
00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:15,689
BUT WITHOUT A WRITTEN LANGUAGE,
635
00:36:15,724 --> 00:36:17,793
HOW DID THE EMPEROR
SEND MESSAGES
636
00:36:17,827 --> 00:36:21,000
AND INSTRUCTIONS TO THE FARTHEST
REACHES OF THE EMPIRE?
637
00:36:21,034 --> 00:36:23,862
♪
638
00:36:23,896 --> 00:36:26,793
SOME INVESTIGATORS NOW BELIEVE
THAT THESE STRANGE
639
00:36:26,827 --> 00:36:28,931
KNOTTED BRAIDS ARE EVIDENCE
640
00:36:28,965 --> 00:36:32,896
OF A SECRET INCA CODE.
641
00:36:32,931 --> 00:36:36,551
COULD THESE FRAIL ARTIFACTS
FINALLY UNLOCK THE SECRETS
642
00:36:36,586 --> 00:36:38,517
OF MACHU PICCHU?
643
00:36:38,551 --> 00:36:41,551
♪
644
00:36:46,482 --> 00:36:49,172
♪
645
00:36:49,206 --> 00:36:54,137
Narrator: MACHU PICCHU IS FAMOUS
AS A LOST CITY.
646
00:36:54,172 --> 00:36:56,620
GENERATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS
HAVE ASKED,
647
00:36:56,655 --> 00:36:58,206
"WHAT WAS IT FOR?
648
00:36:58,241 --> 00:37:00,896
WHY WAS IT BUILT HERE?"
649
00:37:00,931 --> 00:37:03,103
FOR DECADES, INVESTIGATORS
THOUGHT THE INCAS
650
00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:05,896
HAD LEFT NO WRITTEN RECORDS,
651
00:37:05,931 --> 00:37:08,137
BUT COULD THERE HAVE BEEN
A SECRET INCA CODE
652
00:37:08,172 --> 00:37:11,758
STARING THEM IN THE FACE
THE WHOLE TIME?
653
00:37:11,793 --> 00:37:13,620
Hyland: THE INCAS STILL REMAIN
ONE OF THE MOST
654
00:37:13,655 --> 00:37:15,965
MYSTERIOUS CIVILIZATIONS
IN THE WORLD.
655
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,034
THEY HAD AN EMPIRE THE SIZE
OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE,
656
00:37:20,068 --> 00:37:22,517
AND YET VERY BASIC
THINGS ABOUT THEM
657
00:37:22,551 --> 00:37:24,448
ARE A COMPLETE MYSTERY TO US.
658
00:37:24,482 --> 00:37:26,931
♪
659
00:37:26,965 --> 00:37:28,965
Narrator:
ANTHROPOLOGIST SABINE HYLAND
660
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,241
IS SEARCHING FOR A NEW WAY
661
00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:34,172
TO UNCOVER MACHU PICCHU'S
LONG-LOST PAST.
662
00:37:34,206 --> 00:37:36,000
Hyland: FOR A LONG TIME,
PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT THE INCAS
663
00:37:36,034 --> 00:37:37,517
HAD NO WRITING SYSTEM,
664
00:37:37,551 --> 00:37:40,862
BUT NOW THERE'S A GROUP
OF US SCHOLARS THAT ARE MAKING,
665
00:37:40,896 --> 00:37:43,241
I THINK, A LOT OF PROGRESS
IN UNDERSTANDING
666
00:37:43,275 --> 00:37:45,034
THAT THEY DID HAVE
A WRITING SYSTEM.
667
00:37:45,068 --> 00:37:48,000
AND LITTLE BY LITTLE,
WE'RE STARTING TO DECODE IT.
668
00:37:48,034 --> 00:37:50,275
♪
669
00:37:50,310 --> 00:37:54,137
Narrator: SABINE HAS COME TO
OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND
670
00:37:54,172 --> 00:37:55,586
AS PART OF HER INVESTIGATION
671
00:37:55,620 --> 00:37:58,137
TO UNCOVER LOST INCA RECORDS.
672
00:37:58,172 --> 00:38:02,482
♪
673
00:38:02,517 --> 00:38:05,551
WOW. THIS IS AMAZING.
674
00:38:05,586 --> 00:38:08,068
Narrator: THIS CAREFULLY
PRESERVED BUNDLE OF STRING
675
00:38:08,103 --> 00:38:12,034
WAS BROUGHT HERE FROM PERU
IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY.
676
00:38:12,068 --> 00:38:16,896
THE INCAS LEFT HUNDREDS OF
THESE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS BEHIND.
677
00:38:16,931 --> 00:38:20,000
IT'S CALLED A QUIPU,
AND SABINE BELIEVES
678
00:38:20,034 --> 00:38:21,724
THE POSITION OF ITS MANY STRINGS
679
00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:25,655
AND KNOTS SPELL OUT
AN ANCIENT INCA CODE.
680
00:38:25,689 --> 00:38:28,344
IS THIS INCA WRITING?
681
00:38:28,379 --> 00:38:30,724
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD LOOK
AT QUIPU SOMETIMES AND SAY,
682
00:38:30,758 --> 00:38:31,862
"WHAT IS THIS?"
683
00:38:31,896 --> 00:38:34,241
SOMEBODY EVEN CALLED THEM
AN OLD MOPHEAD,
684
00:38:34,275 --> 00:38:37,103
BUT QUIPUS ARE ACTUALLY
A VERY SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM
685
00:38:37,137 --> 00:38:40,448
FOR RECORDING INFORMATION.
686
00:38:40,482 --> 00:38:45,241
SABINE HAS SPENT YEARS STUDYING
THESE ENIGMATIC OBJECTS,
687
00:38:45,275 --> 00:38:47,344
AND EACH NEW QUIPU
SHE FINDS BRINGS HER
688
00:38:47,379 --> 00:38:49,620
CLOSER TO UNDERSTANDING THEM.
689
00:38:49,655 --> 00:38:52,689
♪
690
00:38:52,724 --> 00:38:54,758
WITHIN MINUTES, SABINE SPOTS
691
00:38:54,793 --> 00:38:57,551
THAT THIS IS
AN ACCOUNTING QUIPU.
692
00:38:57,586 --> 00:39:00,206
Hyland: SO THE INCAS HAD
A DECIMAL SYSTEM.
693
00:39:00,241 --> 00:39:02,482
IN THE HUNDREDS,
YOU HAVE A SINGLE KNOT.
694
00:39:02,517 --> 00:39:04,689
THAT MEANS 100.
695
00:39:04,724 --> 00:39:06,827
IN THE TENS PLACE,
YOU HAVE A LONG KNOT
696
00:39:06,862 --> 00:39:09,379
THAT HAS NINE LITTLE NUBS.
697
00:39:09,413 --> 00:39:11,103
THAT MEANS 90.
698
00:39:11,137 --> 00:39:16,551
AND THIS LONG KNOT WITH SEVEN
NUBS REPRESENTS 7, SO 197.
699
00:39:16,586 --> 00:39:20,103
♪
700
00:39:20,137 --> 00:39:23,931
Narrator: THIS QUIPU CONTAINS
NUMERICAL INFORMATION,
701
00:39:23,965 --> 00:39:26,068
BUT SABINE HAS FOUND
OTHER QUIPUS
702
00:39:26,103 --> 00:39:27,379
WITH SOPHISTICATED FORMS
703
00:39:27,413 --> 00:39:30,206
OF LANGUAGE CODED INTO THEM.
704
00:39:30,241 --> 00:39:33,310
Hyland: RECENTLY, I DISCOVERED
TWO 18th-CENTURY QUIPUS
705
00:39:33,344 --> 00:39:36,206
IN A VERY, VERY SMALL VILLAGE
IN THE ANDES,
706
00:39:36,241 --> 00:39:38,137
AND THESE QUIPUS ARE PHONETIC.
707
00:39:38,172 --> 00:39:40,758
EACH CORD REPRESENTS A SYLLABLE.
708
00:39:40,793 --> 00:39:43,103
♪
709
00:39:43,137 --> 00:39:44,793
Narrator:
LIKE THE ROSETTA STONE,
710
00:39:44,827 --> 00:39:46,241
WHICH ALLOWED ARCHAEOLOGISTS
711
00:39:46,275 --> 00:39:49,413
TO UNDERSTAND EGYPTIAN
HIEROGLYPHICS,
712
00:39:49,448 --> 00:39:53,965
EACH QUIPU BRINGS US CLOSER
TO UNDERSTANDING THE INCAS.
713
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,586
ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT'S ADDICTIVE ABOUT WORKING
714
00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:58,931
ON QUIPUS IS IT'S LIKE
A DETECTIVE STORY.
715
00:39:58,965 --> 00:40:01,172
IT'S LIKE PIECING
A PUZZLE TOGETHER,
716
00:40:01,206 --> 00:40:03,655
BUT INSTEAD OF ONE
BIG ROSETTA STONE,
717
00:40:03,689 --> 00:40:05,034
WE'RE FINDING LOTS OF LITTLE,
718
00:40:05,068 --> 00:40:06,758
MINI ROSETTA STONES
719
00:40:06,793 --> 00:40:09,862
THAT LITTLE BY LITTLE ARE
ALLOWING US TO UNDERSTAND
720
00:40:09,896 --> 00:40:12,172
WHAT THIS CODE
IS AND HOW IT WORKED.
721
00:40:12,206 --> 00:40:14,931
♪
722
00:40:14,965 --> 00:40:18,034
Narrator: SABINE BELIEVES THAT
QUIPUS MIGHT SHED NEW LIGHT
723
00:40:18,068 --> 00:40:22,551
ON THE MYSTERY OF
WHY MACHU PICCHU WAS BUILT.
724
00:40:22,586 --> 00:40:24,724
Hyland: IF WE COULD UNDERSTAND
THE QUIPUS,
725
00:40:24,758 --> 00:40:26,137
IT WOULD OPEN UP TO US
726
00:40:26,172 --> 00:40:28,896
THE MEANING OF SITES
LIKE MACHU PICCHU.
727
00:40:28,931 --> 00:40:31,620
MACHU PICCHU, SPECIFICALLY,
WE WOULD GET A RECORD
728
00:40:31,655 --> 00:40:35,413
OF WHAT ACTUAL DAILY ACTIVITIES
WERE CARRIED OUT THERE,
729
00:40:35,448 --> 00:40:37,793
AND WE COULD USE THAT
TO UNDERSTAND
730
00:40:37,827 --> 00:40:40,655
HOW THIS SITE
FUNCTIONED DAY-TO-DAY.
731
00:40:40,689 --> 00:40:43,724
♪
732
00:40:43,758 --> 00:40:46,827
Narrator: MACHU PICCHU IS STILL
ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC
733
00:40:46,862 --> 00:40:49,344
AND MYSTERIOUS SITES
IN THE WORLD.
734
00:40:49,379 --> 00:40:54,379
MACHU PICCHU REPRESENTS
ALL THE GLORIOUS PERUVIAN PAST
735
00:40:54,413 --> 00:40:56,724
BEFORE THE SPANISH INVASION.
736
00:40:56,758 --> 00:40:58,482
Narrator: EVEN TODAY,
THESE TEMPLES
737
00:40:58,517 --> 00:41:01,379
CONTINUE TO REVEAL
NEW SURPRISES.
738
00:41:01,413 --> 00:41:03,310
Burger: THERE'S STILL
AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT
739
00:41:03,344 --> 00:41:05,517
THAT COULD BE DONE
THROUGH EXCAVATION
740
00:41:05,551 --> 00:41:07,620
AND LABORATORY ANALYSIS.
741
00:41:07,655 --> 00:41:11,827
♪
742
00:41:11,862 --> 00:41:16,482
Narrator: PERFECTLY POSITIONED
IN AN ANCIENT SACRED REGION
743
00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:19,448
WITH LUXURIES
BEFITTING AN EMPEROR,
744
00:41:19,482 --> 00:41:23,862
COMMANDING BOTH THE AMAZON
AND THE ANDES,
745
00:41:23,896 --> 00:41:27,862
MACHU PICCHU IS THE CENTER
OF A COMPLEX LANDSCAPE
746
00:41:27,896 --> 00:41:30,172
THAT'S STILL BEING DISCOVERED.
747
00:41:30,206 --> 00:41:33,241
♪
748
00:41:58,689 --> 00:42:01,758
♪
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