The Incas, Peru: the Mystery and Legends of a Lost Civilisation
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Published 2024-01-03
The only testimony comes from the first conquistadores who collected the natives’ tales. Successors, among others, to brilliant civilisations preceding them, the Incas were originally a small tribe from the Quechua region on the bank of Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.
They are part of a confederation of several groups, occupying at first a subordinate rank.
The confederation relied on two clans, the Hanan detaining political power, and the Hurin, the military power of which the Incas were part of. This shared power explains the Inca group’s rise to power by force.
It is only in during the mid-14th century that the Incas create a state bearing their name. Cuzco was the Inca capital for a long time, being the crossroads of the trans-Andean economical axis. It died down when economical activity turned towards Lima.
Machu Pichu is the ancient Inca city, dating back to the 15th century, perched on a rocky headland on the eastern central Andes.
Listed since 1983 on the UNESCO’s world heritage sites, it is also one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Looking at the Incas’ daily lives, their rites and religious cults, we will explore the mystery and legends of this lost civilisation.
Why human sacrifices, why gold is the Inca’s symbolic metal, why worship the Sun? In this documentary we will attempt to solve these questions, with the help of experts on Latin America: Jean-Francois Bouchard, Patrice Lecoq and Carmen Bernand.
Directed by Jacques VICHET
All Comments (21)
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I love coming home from work getting lost in these videos .
After being around unconscious idiots.
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Incredible and to this day we should adopt the ideas 💡 we need to look back to see forward
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A lot of archeologists believe that those super large stones were even older than the inca. The inca just built on top of them.
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Beautiful video from a beautiful channel
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beautiful to discover places from all over the globe ! fantastic job at editing the video and the calm voice is very peaceful
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It's off course the best documentary, I love it thank you so much for your hard work and good production.
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absolutely fantastic video...watched from start to finish..amazing place, sad history, great docco.
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Great vid,very interesting.
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Beautiful Documentary.I Congrats for Creation.
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Beautiful
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Удивительная страна и ее жители. Даже хочется там пожить
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Amazing how we Hindus , our civilization, and culture survived despite Islamic brutality and genocide and European colonization. We lost land but surviving our with our Temples and regaining some of them and our art and culture…
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Beautiful ❤
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Fantastic video . I visited Peru 2 times and will go back again because there a lot to see, in the amazing country. I Visited most this sites, but I didn't see Caral and Chavin which aren't in this video. Congrats excelente job.
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Can't wait to visit this place.😊
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Me n my wife toured this town n more some years ago wit the help of Lutheran WORLD relief 😊😊😊😊😊
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I would move to that island :)
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