The secret of Machu Picchu Inca mummy cloud Empire

In the vast central Lake Titicaca, Peru on the remote island tower Kiel, hundreds of people stood in silence, square in Rome, to listen to the local Catholic priest precent prayer. Residents of the island is 500 years ago was stationed at this point of the Inca colonists descended, the retention of the ancient way of life. They weave cloth color gorgeous, said that the traditional Inca, with the continuation of the cultivation method for centuries care field. Whenever the festival day, they gather in the square, dancing in the wooden flutes and drums accompaniment. Today, a fine summer afternoon, I stood on the side of the square to celebrate the festival of Santiago to see them.

Lake Titicaca to sell crafts vendors were an Inca had consecrated island for tourists.

Santiago Festival is also called the St. James day, equivalent to the Inca era of the Yiyapa Festival, the latter is to worship the God of lightning in indigenous culture. Along with the prayers ended, four dressed in black man raised his carrying rough wooden car painted sculptures in Santiago. The bearers marched in the back, let the whole square, people can see the icon, just like the original Inca carrying their supreme king mummy.

Five centuries ago, these mummies were wrapped into a parcel. The postural distortions. It is easy to transport.

Even if their body had ashes to ashes for hundreds of years, the Inca rulers name sounds still echoing with authoritarian and ambition: Bela available Inca (meaning "creation of God"), Huw Askar Inca (chain king), Pachakateke Inca You Panqi (King of reengineering the world). They are rebuilding the world. An obscure village Inca Dynasty in AD thirteenth Century rise in Peru valley of Cuzco, against the move, buy, intimidation or conquer rival, creating a new continent Kolumb arrived in the empire.

Over the years, scholars have little of the Inca King living poorly, reference only when the Inca noble in the Spanish conquerors arrived after the blow one's own horn. The Inca and Mayan people are not the same, they are not hieroglyphic writing system, the artist may have to draw portraits of rulers, but a also didn't stay. The Inca capital Cuzco palace in the European conquerors soon collapsed under the iron heel, was built on the remains of Spanish colonial city new, buried the Inca Empire of the past. Modern catastrophe is civil war in the early nineteen eighties in the Andes, the 10 years Li Han heartland archaeologists have dared enter the ancient inca.

The Incas Seiko secret agents with every piece of farmland in the vast territory, in the more than 3600 meters above sea level, they planted potato tuber crops, grazing domesticated alpaca.

Now they are working, make up for the lost time. They searched the rugged hillside near Cuzco, discovered the remains of thousands of previously unknown, uncovers some answers as the origin of the Inca empire. They also collect clues from the Spanish colonial documents, reposition the Inca ruler manor site, complex life of royal family, and the main class. In the former imperial borders, they split the splendid evidence, reveal the Inca King war and psychological warfare, it is those who have a hard time dozens of enemy tribes formed the unified territory. University of North Carolina American archaeologist Dennis Ogburn, extraordinary ability invincible and Inca King brick building civilization clearly conveyed a message, "I think they are saying: we are the world's most powerful people, who don't also want to find fault."