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Premiere Broadcast on PBS: February 2, 2010
Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more
than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous
archeological ruin in the Western Hemisphere and an iconic
symbol of the power and engineering prowess of the Inca. In
the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham
in 1911, there have been countless theories about this "Lost
City of the Incas," yet it remains an enigma. Why did the
Incas build it on such an inaccessible site, clinging to the
steep face of a mountain? Who lived among its stone buildings,
farmed its emerald green terraces, and drank from its
sophisticated aqueduct system? NOVA joins a new generation of
archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't
been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials
of the people who built the sacred site. "Ghosts of Machu
Picchu" explores the extraordinary trail of clues that began
on that fateful day in 1911 and continues to the present.
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The ancient inhabitants of Machu Picchu may have included not
only the living but also the mummified dead.
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