The Incas, Peru: the Mystery and Legends of a Lost Civilisation
The Incas did not leave any written word.
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
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I love coming home from work getting lost in these videos . After being around unconscious idiots. Thanks 👍
@adrianariaratnam5817
6 ай бұрын
Lol....... I hear ya buddy.
@mjade1673
5 ай бұрын
Omg yes😂 same🙏😊
@jasonblack6142
5 ай бұрын
Love you guys and gals and lost idiots Cause one life time they'll awake
Incredible and to this day we should adopt the ideas 💡 we need to look back to see forward
@SarahAndrews24
6 ай бұрын
You are so right..lately i am realizing more and more how much wisdom my grandmother had in the things she said and the way she lived..amazing knowledge .
@jamesmccarthy6400
6 ай бұрын
@@SarahAndrews24 knowledge is a breath of light, shared ,learnt and inspire a solid foundation for us to Cherish our prescious planetenabling us to bring harmony and lead us towards our brighest beginning
@heraldocosta1469
4 ай бұрын
From the Incas: Don't lie ! Don't steal !. Don't be lazy !
A lot of archeologists believe that those super large stones were even older than the inca. The inca just built on top of them.
@markgarin6355
5 ай бұрын
Even the Incan
@marilemos6810
5 ай бұрын
Thousands of years ago before Incas, there were very advanced kingdoms such as the Chavin, the Tiahuanaco, the Moches, the Mochicas, the Chachapoya, the Nazca, Paracas, the Wary,... who dominated agriculture with large aqueducts and platforms, architecture with citadels of stone and mud, metallurgy with the mixing of gold and silver..., textiles (fine and colorful fabrics as seen in the funerary bundles of the Paracas), ceramics, medicine with cranial surgeries to remove tumors,... The Incas arrived last and ruled for very few years
@heraldocosta1469
4 ай бұрын
@@marilemos6810 Add to that also the Caral civilization
beautiful to discover places from all over the globe ! fantastic job at editing the video and the calm voice is very peaceful
It's off course the best documentary, I love it thank you so much for your hard work and good production.
Beautiful video from a beautiful channel
absolutely fantastic video...watched from start to finish..amazing place, sad history, great docco.
Great vid,very interesting.
Beautiful Documentary.I Congrats for Creation.
Beautiful
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.
Can't wait to visit this place.😊
Beautiful ❤
Удивительная страна и ее жители. Даже хочется там пожить
@inmaculadaconcepcioncabeza4653
5 ай бұрын
No es oro todo lo que reluce, No lo veas tan bonito para vivir,
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…
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 :)
We are seeing the beautiful palatial architectural works of Baroque style adapted to Peru thanks to the great Spanish and Inca fusion.
@heraldocosta1469
4 ай бұрын
I think the Spanish civilization did more damage then good to Incas/Peru
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ceviche , causa limeña , trucha , paiche , pisco sour , etc..laguna 69 , geiser , cañon colca ,etc .. cahuide monument , takanakuy , yunza ,etc
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Wonder how much Inca gold is in the Vatican
3:31 That’s the softest babbling fountain I’ve ever not heard. Or not seen.😂
Not a conquest. A liberation. 😊
Ts not an "Indian" revolt they never called emselves Indians
Is this a 2024 documentary that still calls indigenous people Indiana is offensive
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Sad and shameful that the Spanish invaders came to exterminate a marvellous civilisation.but worse now the whole Latin continent speaks Spanish or Portuguese and mostly catholic.
same old humans destroying my mother earth
Cuzco is not a town, it is a city.
Peru was not a colony
Some of practices look similar to Hinduism. Hindu legends tell the danavas were sent to South America also known as Pathala. Too bad they gave up to colonizers unlike Hindus.
The word 'civilization' has no 's' in it.
Everything destroyed by the Conquistador...unfair...all latinoamerica and the Caribbean had his civilizaciones, not savages....
@zerenx8272
6 ай бұрын
What about aztec human sacrifice isn't that savage imagine being a human sacrifice your heart being cut while youre alive oh no
@elix901
6 ай бұрын
We often forget about the North Americas too especially the Mesa Verde site.
@technomickdocumentalist2495
6 ай бұрын
@@zerenx8272 A lot of it is overblown, and exaggerated, yes human sacrifice did happen, but the manner on which it was actually done and the way the act was felt and dealt with was far more spiritual and and considered an honor to be done etc, it’s just another classic case of one nation trying to make another seem like uncivilized savages that need to be interfered with and “ guided “ to make them better, when really they just wanted to rule over them.
@zerenx8272
6 ай бұрын
@@elix901 yeah they are cannibals scary
@ramongonzalez1114
6 ай бұрын
Research Tartaria, research Taino, ect, ect...what savages, know about ,Agriculture, our planet, has a government system, ect ect....even all of that ancient civilization knew the big secret about Earth, research by yourself.
Never establish a city with your sister...and wife. Not sure why anyone is talking about an ancient city then churches...your loosing focus. No one who is interested in ancient peru gives a shit about the churches.
@heraldocosta1469
4 ай бұрын
Indeed Indeed, They destroyed a fantastic civilization !!
A pity, most of Inca architecture, culture, religion, language were all destroyed by invaders.
The WORST DOCUMENTARY , YOUR INFO IS SO WRONG , TUPAC AMARU WAS NOT DISMEMBERED , THIS MAN WAS SO STRONG THE SPANISH COULDN’T SO HE ENDED UP BEING BEHEADED , AND YOUR PRONUNCIATION AND CONTENT , MERIT ……….. SUCKS !
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