The Lost Medieval Citadel Of The Incan Empire | Myth Hunters

In the 16th century, the Inca Empire faced Spanish conquistadors and fled deep into the jungles of Peru, where they built a last stronghold called Vilcabamba. American explorer Hiram Bingham, driven by a desire for fame, sought to uncover the lost city of Vilcabamba. Bingham's expedition, funded by various corporations and his wife's wealth, led him to Machu Picchu, a remarkable Inca site he initially believed to be Vilcabamba. Bingham's legacy endures as he played a pivotal role in uncovering one of the world's great wonders.
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  • @rickyfargason8859
    @rickyfargason88592 ай бұрын

    I visited Macchu Picu. Amazing site knowing it was built without iton or horse in a remote place in the mountains. The stones were carved with precision with no gaps or mortar. Incredible feat by the Inca.

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    Ай бұрын

    I've come to realize,: ☀️🏹 The ruins Bingham found are pre-Incan, pre-flood, a Civilization that came before us, one that has reu8ns encircling this Earth, and for anyone to deny it can only be due to "lack of familiarity with History through Education", and/or "Mainstream Academic 19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline" programming, occasionally refered to as: the "Mainstream Academia Dogmatic Orthodoxy". 🔑 ... for a Learned, Open Mind applying the "Standards of Science and Research" can see the facts easily and with logic, realize that these are earlier People's Civilizations. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    Ай бұрын

    I've come to realize: ☀️🏹 The ruins Bingham found are pre-Incan, pre-flood, a Civilization that came before us, one that has reu8ns encircling this Earth, and for anyone to deny it can only be due to "lack of familiarity with History through Education", and/or "Mainstream Academic 19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline" programming, occasionally refered to as: the "Mainstream Academia Dogmatic Orthodoxy". 🔑 ... for a Learned, Open Mind applying the "Standards of Science and Research" can see the facts easily and with logic, realize that these are earlier People's Civilizations. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

  • @Dovid2000
    @Dovid20002 ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary! Watched from beginning to end. Machu Picchu is truly a fabulous place with extraordinary views and architecture!

  • @MysticChronicles712
    @MysticChronicles7122 ай бұрын

    Absolutely captivating! The uncovering of the lost medieval citadel of the Incan Empire is truly mesmerizing. Every detail in this video kept me on the edge of my seat. Can't wait to explore more mysteries with Myth Hunters. Keep up the fantastic work

  • @rickyfargason8859
    @rickyfargason88592 ай бұрын

    I visited Macchu Picu. Amazing place. Keep in mind it was built without iron or horses in a remote mountain area. Incredible feat by the Inca. I was in awe.

  • @bogtrottername7001
    @bogtrottername70012 ай бұрын

    I can't help but think of the Monty Python skit with the sentence "sitting there on your loathsome spotted behinds" when I read derogatory comments by those who have, quite likely, never achieved anything of consequence in their lives. It's rich that they even express an opinion about an explorer such as Bingham. He was wealthy and educated so he could have lived a life of comfort instead of venturing out as he did !

  • @davidd6171
    @davidd61712 ай бұрын

    He didn't find or discover anything!! He was lead to it by people that already knew about it and the location!

  • @n4murr

    @n4murr

    2 ай бұрын

    this feels like it was made by the bingham family hahahaa

  • @seansabhaois

    @seansabhaois

    2 ай бұрын

    That's very interesting? Tell everyone about your discoveries ☝️😅🤣😂

  • @jeffarmfield2346

    @jeffarmfield2346

    2 ай бұрын

    And yet, if he hadn't refound it, or whatever term you want to use, you still wouldn't know about it...

  • @yeehaw3792

    @yeehaw3792

    2 ай бұрын

    Considering the rest of the world didn't know about it, he definitely discovered it.

  • @bujongols

    @bujongols

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah but they didnt let the rest of the world know...he did

  • @Jo_Kuiper
    @Jo_Kuiper2 ай бұрын

    When you walk the so called Inca trail, your first view of it is amazing, it was for me 24 years ago.

  • @elfrad1714
    @elfrad17142 ай бұрын

    I have travelled there twice. It is mangificent.

  • @eduardoguillermo3156
    @eduardoguillermo31562 ай бұрын

    He had the money to uncovered it. He didn't discovered nothing new for the people there. Only to show for the rest of the world. Somebody had to do it one day

  • @cibetka76
    @cibetka762 ай бұрын

    It seems quite obvious that Machu Picchu is not Vilcabamba. The chronicle is clear that the Incas took refuge to jungle plains, and its completely logical. They already saw Mountains arent protected enough as Spaniards took all their cities and forts there. They went to more inaccessible place, and eventhough its not their normal habitat, they had no choice. Also, the lack of ruins the kind of Machu Picchu there is normal, there isnt enough stone in muddy plain as there is in mountain, the Incas were remnants and refugees, not the grat empire any more, so its obvious that most of what they would have built there would be made of wood and perish.

  • @loveandlive05

    @loveandlive05

    28 күн бұрын

    That is exactly what I thought. Plus, if you have the Spanish at your heels. They wouldn't have time to make Lavish buildings and extraravagant architecture. The buildings there would have been infererior and essential.

  • @JonHullock
    @JonHullock16 күн бұрын

    Agustín Lizárraga Ruiz (Spanish: [aɣusˈtin liˈθaraɣa] June 12, 1865, in Mollepata - February 11, 1912, in Urubamba River) was a Peruvian explorer and farmer who discovered Machu Picchu on July 14, 1902, nine years prior to American explorer Hiram Bingham.

  • @mentalmetalist
    @mentalmetalist2 ай бұрын

    Oh so a peasant farmer found it and you claimed the credit.

  • @printedwit

    @printedwit

    2 ай бұрын

    "has it truly been 'discovered' until an erudite white man has seen it and documented it?" - history, probs, as written by that same demographic.

  • @olewetdog6254

    @olewetdog6254

    2 ай бұрын

    Always some rich dude who has nothing else to do.

  • @shadelings

    @shadelings

    2 ай бұрын

    To be fair, a peasant would never have the resources to bring Machu Picchu to the world like an incredibly wealthy explorer would, so of course the explorer would get the credit.

  • @g.nolandehart501

    @g.nolandehart501

    2 ай бұрын

    Well yes... Since they didn't have writing, you would need someone else with a writing system to record it.

  • @civitasincivibusest
    @civitasincivibusestАй бұрын

    Amazing !!!!!!!

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685Ай бұрын

    Very informative

  • @cindycottee8436
    @cindycottee8436Ай бұрын

    Wow I loved this

  • @o.h.w.6638
    @o.h.w.6638Ай бұрын

    Hiram Bingham, the first tourist basically.

  • @garyditschler2482

    @garyditschler2482

    12 күн бұрын

    The first tourist from the USA

  • @biendereviere
    @biendereviere2 ай бұрын

    I wonder why people watch these documentaries and then comment in such a rude derogatory manner… if you don’t like it, just click away but don’t be so rude to the people who made this documentary! They’ve put many hours into this. If you can do better, please share 😅😖 Oh and @iamllux why do you think British narrators and documentary makers are considered THE BEST in the world? Because they are. I really wonder the foundation of your ridiculous comment, like I said “if you don’t like what you see, click away!”

  • @heenanyou
    @heenanyouАй бұрын

    "He was just a local Peruvian peasant."

  • @lexigrimhaive
    @lexigrimhaiveАй бұрын

    When will indigenous peoples everywhere cease to be referred to as “indians”???

  • @michaelbattin3362
    @michaelbattin33622 ай бұрын

    That was good

  • @Archangel3083
    @Archangel308317 күн бұрын

    Sooooo, dude gets credited for discovering a city that people already know where it’s at?

  • @whoabro615
    @whoabro6152 ай бұрын

    There are several incan cities in that jungle around Machu piccu

  • @paranjothybs3712
    @paranjothybs371221 күн бұрын

    I always wonder how this Europeans who came to the shores in ships with limited soldiers and supplies can conquer a well established country on the main land, they had Guns, but can they defeat a well established country with few cannons, Guns and soldiers, their commanders must be very cunning, ruthless who bribed the locals to help them conquer and colonised the countries.

  • @tyraikaika
    @tyraikaika2 ай бұрын

    He didn’t discover it people, the locals knew about it for centuries the whites were the last to know in this situation.

  • @SOP83
    @SOP832 ай бұрын

    I often feel like I want to leave the cruel modern world behind and head south to live with the Inca.

  • @nickim6571

    @nickim6571

    2 ай бұрын

    Inca were pretty cruel too.

  • @veroland3768

    @veroland3768

    2 ай бұрын

    Go to any andean nation and you would see otherwise. Travel

  • @nickim6571

    @nickim6571

    2 ай бұрын

    @@veroland3768 I have.

  • @user-bg9sg8cm3s

    @user-bg9sg8cm3s

    Ай бұрын

    They’d eat you 😅

  • @lll_phoebe.j_lll
    @lll_phoebe.j_lll2 ай бұрын

    What happened to the kind indians who lived there? I hope they weren't chased out of their homes 🙏

  • @frederickcameron3836

    @frederickcameron3836

    2 ай бұрын

    I think they’re still there.

  • @flashgordon6670

    @flashgordon6670

    2 ай бұрын

    They were butchered, robbed, raped, sold into slavery and wiped out by foreign diseases in their millions.

  • @brendacooper5729
    @brendacooper572917 күн бұрын

    Incas fleeing into the jungle would likely not have the resources, and possibly not the expertise to duplicate the stonework of the previous Inca cities, not to mention the time between the founding and the discovery by the Spaniards. It was rather unrealistic to dismiss it because it didn't duplicate previous examples.

  • @joedevine46
    @joedevine462 ай бұрын

    Dude didn't find nothing.

  • @katedaphne4495

    @katedaphne4495

    Ай бұрын

    Just because somebody found something first doesnt mean somebody else cant find it. Stop your foolish talk please.

  • @goodhealthgoodtimes
    @goodhealthgoodtimesАй бұрын

    Matchu Plitchu looks like where the natives found refuge in the flood, 12 thousand years ago.

  • @jenniferlyons4150
    @jenniferlyons4150Күн бұрын

    He was probably the only non-native to write about the site in 1911. Back then, who cared about ancient South America. The US was still segregated and full of white privilege. His wife's family were probably getting blood diamonds from Africa to fund his expedition. He definitely was not the person that discovered it. The Indigenous people were the ones that discovered it. He wanted an adventure, like Indiana Jones, and he got that. Everyone in the area knew about it and still farmed the area. He wanted to make a name in the field, which I get, because if he had not ventured out, someone else at a later time would have.

  • @bimini1216
    @bimini12162 ай бұрын

    The 1800 dollars was like saying 50,000 today

  • @m..s6748
    @m..s67482 ай бұрын

    IT'S LIKE SAYING THE BRITISH FOUND INDIA NO INDIANS FOUND INDIA THEMSELVES LOL BUT THE BRITISH CLAIMED🤣

  • @djquinn11

    @djquinn11

    2 ай бұрын

    Well, Columbus discovered America and Al Gore invented the internet.

  • @josh656
    @josh6562 ай бұрын

    He lived on top of a hill? Well I have heard it all now.

  • @Arthur-Silva
    @Arthur-SilvaАй бұрын

    LIES! 🤣 The locals not only knew of that place's existence, people came from all over South America to check it out, so much so that Homeboy hired local guides to take him up the trail.

  • @JD-gk7eh

    @JD-gk7eh

    20 күн бұрын

    Right? He was worried about being the discoverer but uh...someone else took him up there, so someone else had found it first. Duh.

  • @andymilan2
    @andymilan22 ай бұрын

    Who writes the titles? It wasn't "shocking"... please, we are NOT on the Daily Mail.. just a normal descriptive title would be enough... that said, video itself was good so thanks!

  • @JJONNYREPP
    @JJONNYREPP2 ай бұрын

    The Shocking Discovery Of The Lost Medieval Citadel Of The Incan Empire | Myth Hunters | Chronicle 16.3.24 is it flippant to suggest Maanco was a clint eastwood character...he who had no quarrel...made money from those two opposing idiot factions....?

  • @nickim6571
    @nickim65712 ай бұрын

    I don't understand how you can claim to "discover" a place that many other people know about--American and European hubris.

  • @seansabhaois

    @seansabhaois

    2 ай бұрын

    "American and European hubris" That's brilliant. You need to bring this to the attention of National Geographic, they've obviously not thought about this ☝️😅🤣😂

  • @Skarlett00

    @Skarlett00

    18 күн бұрын

    Locals knew this place existed obviously but it had never been documented/studied by the western world so for the western world it was a discovery. If the Incans had travelled to Europe they too would have gone back home to speak of a new land and people that was discovered.

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeoАй бұрын

    Great documentary but the Incas didn't built the Machu Picchu. Incas just also discovered it's ruins

  • @TEMindset83702
    @TEMindset837022 ай бұрын

    What happened to the people who lived there?

  • @veroland3768

    @veroland3768

    2 ай бұрын

    We are still here, there are still many indigenous nations throughout the America's.

  • @squidink206

    @squidink206

    Ай бұрын

    The filthy Spanish conquistadors killed their entire civilization. The modern ones are remnants that were forcibly converted to Catholicism so that Spain could have another colony and get richer. The Conquistadors are basically genocidal megalomaniacs.

  • @reejr1335
    @reejr13352 ай бұрын

    The Indians? Wtf

  • @besreal3419
    @besreal341919 күн бұрын

    Who can explain why Hiram Bingham's wife funded his travels although he wasn't staying at home = meeting her needs? Did she have plenty of side lovers, or perhaps was a lesbian who agreed to share her inheritance with Hiram for keeping her secret?

  • @erikolson5299

    @erikolson5299

    7 күн бұрын

    What?!? Have you ever BEEN in a loving marriage? True love never dies, and this was the age of expansion, men left and didn’t return home for years all OVER the civilized world for this thing or another. People that actually love each other endure any and all hardships. Her family owned the Tiffany .Co fortune, it was likely a rather small drop in the bucket. In the end, she knew her man well enough to believe in him, and she was right. Now stop sippy cupping that 3% hard cider and internetting.

  • @user-xo9ud3lb3q
    @user-xo9ud3lb3qАй бұрын

    Id prob die before i ever see this place.. lol

  • @TEMindset83702
    @TEMindset837022 ай бұрын

    The music though dramatic is too loud.

  • @ryanh9183
    @ryanh91835 күн бұрын

    A lot of judgemental comments by people on here. Seems to be the way now. Make myself feel better by tearing down accomplishments of others.

  • @iamllux
    @iamllux2 ай бұрын

    This is a documentary about Hyram Bingham the 3rd's "great discovery" that was already known by the local people. Good thing those rich white men were around to write history for us. BTW, "impoverished academic" is an oxymoron. But I don't expect narrators with British accents to know that.

  • @seansabhaois

    @seansabhaois

    2 ай бұрын

    You raise very interesting points? What kind of accent do you have BTW 😂🤣😅☝️

  • @iamllux

    @iamllux

    2 ай бұрын

    @@seansabhaois I don't go around saying ridiculous things like "impoverished academic."

  • @LiquidDIO

    @LiquidDIO

    2 ай бұрын

    Without rich white men, you wouldn't be bitching about recorded word, and moving pictures on a global website over a global network. Yet here you are

  • @g.nolandehart501

    @g.nolandehart501

    2 ай бұрын

    It's weird how you try to attack racism by being racist.

  • @6471917
    @647191714 күн бұрын

    "He was just a Peruvian peasant... his discovery was secure." Bruh. This was such an interesting documentary up until that part. This is the reason why people think the former western imperial powers think of themselves as the masters of the world. You could've presented this in such a different manner you know. But the choice of words. The way you just tossed aside the original discoverer after acknowledging the achievement was his. Yuck. I wonder what people in Peru think of Bingham, the rich white dude that was so obsessed with his own fame that he stole someone else's achievement just because he was a poor peasant from a poor country.

  • @TEMindset83702
    @TEMindset837022 ай бұрын

    Bingham deserves credit for “discovering” this lost Incan citadel because he was the first non Incan to reveal this masterpiece of architecture to the world’s attention.

  • @paulantsuth

    @paulantsuth

    Ай бұрын

    😊😊😊😊😊

  • @paulantsuth

    @paulantsuth

    Ай бұрын

    😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @mikloslegrady965
    @mikloslegrady96522 күн бұрын

    The opening statement sounds ridiculous. If the Spaniards beat the Incas in this last city the Incas built to fight the Spaniards, the victors would not forget this unforgettable city in the clouds. If you;re going to write hypeervole as history, please keep track of the logic used.

  • @user-io9ie5cs8j
    @user-io9ie5cs8j2 ай бұрын

    Absolutely amazing! He was wrong on a couple things and made one of the greatest discoveries in history

  • @davidd6171

    @davidd6171

    2 ай бұрын

    He discovered it? The video litteraly told us that locals told him about it then took him to the location. He didn't discover a damn thing!! LOL

  • @feministaekhon
    @feministaekhonАй бұрын

    We have magnificent temples that the Arabs and Turk( ish) people destroyed and then Brits “ discovered “ them !

  • @willfungusman8666
    @willfungusman86662 ай бұрын

    Hiram Bingham III, incompetent "explorer"

  • @MrWeAllAreOne

    @MrWeAllAreOne

    Ай бұрын

    Oh really.... what exactly have you explored!!?

  • @Itsnotapet

    @Itsnotapet

    9 күн бұрын

    Your mom

  • @willfungusman8666

    @willfungusman8666

    9 күн бұрын

    @@MrWeAllAreOne ur 🍑🕳️

  • @erikolson5299

    @erikolson5299

    7 күн бұрын

    I remember my first beer while internetting too. I wasn’t such an insufferable twat about it though.

  • @brookhugginson8687
    @brookhugginson8687Ай бұрын

    Promo SM

  • @sinchikuyaqkanchik4846
    @sinchikuyaqkanchik48462 ай бұрын

    Why do you think that the Inkas were an Empire,? Because of the conquistadors? Or because of the current spaniards? Such a concept exist only en western (european) and/or in the Midle Eastern culture. The Inka society were never an Empire (Do you know its implications of an Empire?) , we don't have such a concept in our culture. You can find out through our voices; meaning, through our languages. Even here in North America'', natives don't have that term and many, many other terms or concepts in their languages. Etc., etc.,!

  • @frederickcameron3836

    @frederickcameron3836

    2 ай бұрын

    You’re full of it. The indigenous peoples of North America colonized each other. Get off the victim drug.

  • @heenanyou
    @heenanyouАй бұрын

    I didn't see anything "shocking" here. Stop with the clickbait titles.

  • @leocruz9536
    @leocruz9536Ай бұрын

    He didn’t discover anything. The indigenous people knew about these places long ago. It amazes me how these so-called explorer are glorified today.

  • @petergianakopoulos4926
    @petergianakopoulos49262 ай бұрын

    He was wrong.. what a loser

  • @user-io9ie5cs8j

    @user-io9ie5cs8j

    2 ай бұрын

    Regardless, one of the greatest discoveries

  • @petergianakopoulos4926

    @petergianakopoulos4926

    2 ай бұрын

    BIG L@@user-io9ie5cs8j

  • @willfungusman8666
    @willfungusman86662 ай бұрын

    Who cares who found it? These stories are so boring!

  • @Adniram.

    @Adniram.

    2 ай бұрын

    Speak for yourself. I find it very interesting

  • @seansabhaois

    @seansabhaois

    2 ай бұрын

    But, you went ahead and watched the entire video, in any event, otherwise how would you know?☝️😅🤣😂

  • @frederickcameron3836

    @frederickcameron3836

    2 ай бұрын

    Don’t you find it boring to know nothing?

  • @rumasingh9379
    @rumasingh9379Ай бұрын

    Yeie ! It's one of the cruel robbers !! Storyline in Bangal hunger proub made by yele ! is available online .

  • @pennsue
    @pennsue25 күн бұрын

    These sites are the petrified cellular remains of enormous prehistoric plants. Found, occupied and exploited by humans but grown from the same natural processes needed to grow a planet. ⚜️🪷⚜️

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