All language subtitles for expedition.unknown.s06e03.atlantis.of.the.andes.hdtv.x264-w4f

IT'S GIGANTIC.

WHY DID THEY BUILD IT
IN THIS ACE?

SO, THERE'S SOMETHING
UNDEEATH US?

[ LAUGHS ]
THAT'S STONE!

LOOKT TH!

SOMETHG JU WENRIGH
BYHE CERA.

LET'S SEE
WHAT'S DOWN HERE.

♪♪

HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF BOLIA A PER

IS ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING
PLACES ON THE PLANET-

LAKE TITICACA.

IT'S THE LARGEST LAKE
IN SOUTH AMERICA

AND THE HIGHEST NAVIGABLE
BODY OF WATER IN THE WORLD.

AND ACCORDING TO LEGEND,
IT MIGHT ALSO HAVE BEEN HOME

TO ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

IN THE AMERICAS.

I'M NOT LKING ABOUTHE INCA,
BUT A FAR OLDER

AND MORE MYSTERIOUS CULTURE
KNOWN AS THE TIWANAKU.

PREDATING THE INCA
BY MORTHAN,000EARS

THEY BUILT MASSIVE STONE TEMPLES

THAT, TO THIS DAY,
HAVE BARELY BEEN EXCAVATED.

THE INCA BELIEVE THE TIWANAKU

WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE
TO WALK THE EARTH

AND THAT THEIR CAPITAL CITY WAS
ONCE SO MASSIVE AND SO COMPLEX,

IT MUST HAVE BEEN BUILT
BY GODS OR GIANTS.

THEY ERECTED BIZARRE STRUCTURES
WITH CRYPTIC SYMBOLS

THAT HAVE GIVEN RISE
TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES

OFLIENONTA.

AND THIS DAY,
STORS PEIST

THAT AN EVEN MORE
MAGNIFICENT CITY

IS HIDDEN DEEP UNDERWATER.

IT MIGHT SOUND LIKE NTASY,

BUT RECENT SCANS
OF THEIR RUINED METROPOLIS

REVEAL IT MIGHT BE LARGER

AND MORE ADVANCED
THAN ANYONE BELIEVED.

AND THE DISCOVERY
OF MYSTERIOUS SUNKEN RUINS

HAS SOME PEOPLE SAYING

THAT THE SO-CALLED
ATLANTIS OF THE ANDES

MIGHT ACTUALLY BE REAL.

SO, WHO BUILT THE CITY
OF TIWANAKU AND HOW?

AND IS MORE OF TIR ANCIENT
EMPIRE REALLY HIDDEN UNDERWATER?

A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF
THE WORLD'S MOST LEGENDARY LAKE

MIGHT FINALLY LEAD TO ANSWERS.

♪♪

MY NAME IS JOSH TES.

LOOK! [ LAUGHS ]

...EXPLORER, ADVENTURER...

THAT IS IT!

...AND A GUY WHO ENDS UP
IN SOMVERYTRAN SITTION

AH, AH, AAH, HAA!

WITH A DEGREE RCHALOGY

AND A PASSION
FOR THE EXPLNED,

TRAV TO E EN
OF T EARTH,

INVESTATING
THE GREATEST LEGENDS IN HISTORY.

OKAY, LET'S PUNCH IT.

IS IS "EXPEDITION UNKNOWN."

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I'M IN BOLIVIA TO MEET AN EXPERT
ONHE TANAK

IN THE HIGHEST CAPITAL CITY
ON EARTH.

[ DOG BARKING ]

[ PANTING ]

♪♪

WELC--
[ EXHALES DEEPLY ]

[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]

FORGET IT.
FORGET IT.

OH, GOD.

"WELME TLA P"
IS WT I WAS GOING FOR.

AT AN ALTITUDE OF 12,000 FEET,

THIS PLACE LITERALLY
TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY,

ESPECIALLY SINCE GETTING AROUND
MEANS GOING EV HIGR.

♪♪

THIS IS THE TEFERI.

ITS THWORLS HIEST AND
LONGEST AERIAL CABLE-CAR SYSTEM.

IT WAS BUILT A FEW YEARS AGO

TO COUNTERACT THE CRUSHING
GRIDLOCK DOWN IN THE CITY.

AND AS OF TODAY, THERE ARE
SIX DIFFERENT CABLE-CAR LINES,

20 STATIONS,
AND MORE THAN 900 GONDOLAS,

GLIDING ABOVE A SEA
HUMITY.

♪♪

ON THE CROWDED STREETS BELOW
ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE INCA,

AYRA NATIVES,
AND EVEN THE ENIGMATIC TIWANAKU.

IT A BND OCULTES

THAT MAKES
FOR SOME INTERESNG SPPIN

LIKE HERE,
AT THE WITCHES MARKET...

HOLA.
...A ONE-STORITU SHO

SEING EVERYTHING
FROM DRIED LLAMA FETUSES,

WHICH IS LIKE THE LOCAL VERSION
OF A LUCKY RABBIT'S FOOT,

TO THE UNAVOIDABLE
ANDEAN PAN FLUTE.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE
DON'T KNOW THIS.

I ACTULY TOOK FOUR YEARS
OF ANDEAN PAN FLUTE IN COLLEGE.

[ PAN FLUTE MUSIC PLAYS ]

STILL GOT IT.

STILL GOT IT.

I GIVE THE PIPES A REST
AND MAKE MY WAY

TO THE LA PAZ
NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM.

I'VE ARRANGED TO MEET WITH
ARCHAEOLOGIST ALEXEIRANI,

ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST
AUTHORITIES ON THE TIWANAKU.

TIWANA, THIS IS NOT
A HOUSEHOLD NAME TO MOST PEOPLE.

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING
EVERYBODY'S HEARD OF,

SO, WHAT IS TIWANAKU?

IT'S A PLACE UP AT 13,000 FEET
ABOVE SEA LEVEL

RIGHT ON THE SHORES
OF LAKE TITICA.

BUT IT'S ALSO A PEOPLE.
THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT IT?

THE PEOPLE WHO BUILTT.

YOU HAVE
THIS MEGALITHIC SITE.

THE SCALE IS SO BIG.

SOME OF THESE STONES
ARE TREMENDOUS.

THESE STONES
ARE SO LARGE.

WHEN THE FIRST TRAVELERS
CAME THROUGH,

THEY REFERRED TO IT
AS THE AMERICAN STONEHENGE.

WOW.

Gates:
AND MUCH LIKE STONENGE,

TIWANAKU IS ONE OF
THE WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES.

LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES
WEST OF LA PAZ,

TIWANAKU WAS BUILT
AROUND 100 B.C.,

MORE THAN 1,000 YEARS BEFORE
THE INCA ARRIVED ON THE SCENE.

THE SITE CONSISTS OF A LARGE
COMPLEX OF HUGE STONE STRUCTURES

BUILT NEAR THE COAST
OF LAKE TITICACA.

YOU LOOK AT IT, AND YOU THINK,
"WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?

WHY DID THEY BUILD IT
IN THIS PLACE?"

IT'S IN THE MIDDLE
OF NOWHERE.

YOU GO THERE,
AND THERE'S JUST NOTHING,

WHICH HAS GIVEN RISE
TO A LOT OF WILD THEORIES.

THE RUINS FEATURE CRYPTIC
GATEWAYS, OTHERWLDLY CARVINGS,

AND IMPOSSIBLY LARGE WALLS,

LEADING CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
TO CLAIM

THSITEUST VE BN BUT
WITH ALIEN ASSISTANCE.

EVEN THE INCA,
WHENHEY RIVEAT T RUI

500 YEARS
AFTER THE TIWANAKU COLLAPSED,

WERE STUNNED BY THE SIZE

AND PERFECTION
OF THE STONEWORK.

YOU KNOW, FACT,
THE INCA JUSTICAON TRULE

WAS BASED ON THE IDEA
THAT THEY WERE THE FIRSTBORN.

THE GODS MADE THEM.
THEY WENT OUT TO CONQUER.

TH ALLF A DDEN
TH GETO TINAKU

AND THEY'RE LIKE,
"OH, NO.

THERE'S SOMETHING HERE
THAT'S CLEARLY OLDER THAN US

AND EVEN BETTER."
RIGHT.

SO, WHAT DO THEY DO?

THEY JUST CHANGE
THEIR HISTORY AROUND.

THEY SAID, "IN FACT,
WE WERE BORN HERE."

SO, THE INCA SUDDENLY WERE BORN
AT TIWANAKU?

THEY REARRANGED IT A BIT
AND SAID, "LOOK WHAT WE MADE."

GHT.

Gates:
THE ECISION STONEWORK AND
MASSIVE BLOCKS USED AT TIWANAK

ARE MORE ADVANCED
THAN ANYTHING FOUND

THEMERIS ATHE TE.

SO, HOW DID THEY BUILD
THIS ENGINEERING MARVEL?

YOU WILL NEED TOERSTAND
WHAT THE TIWANAKU WERE

AND WHAT THE SITE IS LIKE.

YOU HAVE TO GO
TO THIS ONE LOCATION.

RFEC

Gas:
SO EARLYHE NT MOING
ANI DOEAN RLY.

...I DRIVE THE 50 MILES
FROM LA PAZ TO TIWANAKU...

...TO MARK A VERY SPECIAL
OCCASION.

IT'S JUST AFTER 5:00 A.M.,
AND I'VE ARRIVED AT TIWANAKU,

A PLACE NAMED
AFTER THE MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE

WHO CE LIVED HERE,

, AT AM I DOING HERE
IN THE FREEZING DARKNESS?

WE, TO THIS DAY,
LOCALS BELIEVE

THAT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
MOMENT OF THE YEAR

IN THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACE --

SUNRISE ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE.

I'M NOT ALONE HERE.

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE
DESCENDING ON THIS ANCIENT SITE,

SEEKG GO FORNE
FOR THE COMING YEAR.

EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA,
EVO MORALES,

IS IN ATTENDANCE,

DONNING TRADITIONAL GARB

TO SOAK IN
THE FIRST RAYS OF LIGHT

AT A MYSTERIOUS STONE STRUCTURE
CALLED THE GATE OF THE SUN.

THE TINAKU BELIED
THE N WACREATED

BY A POWERFUL DEITY
KNOWN TO US AS THE STAFF GOD.

THE INCA WOULD LATER
CALL HIM VIRACOCHA.

LEGENDAYS HE EMERGED FROM
THE WATERS OF THE NEARBY LAKE,

CREATING THE SUN AND BUILDING
E ADNCEDITY TIWAKU

WITH THE HELP OF GIANT

ALL AROUND ME ARE
THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TIWANAKU,

AND WHILE IT MIGHT SOUND CRAZY,
MANY OF THEM REALLY BELIEVE

AT TS SI WASUILT
BY AOD A AN MY OGIANTS.

BUT WHEN THE SUN COM UP,
IT NOTARD SEEHY.

AS THE FIRST RAYS OF LIGHT
PIERCE THE FRIGID AIR,

THOUSANDS OF HANDS ARE HELD UP
TO THE RISING SUN...

♪♪

...AND THE MYSTERIOUS CITY
IS REVEALED.

♪♪

THERE ARE SPRAWLING TELES,
COSSALALLSCHANLS,

AND STONE GUTTERS FOR WATER
AND MYSTERIOUS CARVINGS.

TO FIND SOME HARD ANERS
AS THOW WASLL BLT,

I WAIT FOR THE CROWDS
TO DISPERSE

AND THEN MEET
WITH LEADING ARCHALOGIST

JOSE IGNACIO GALLEGOS

AT THE SO-CALLED
GATE OF THE SUN.

SO, THE FIRST THING I NOTICE
ARE THESE BEAUTIFUL CARVINGS.

SO LET'SALK ABOUT
THE BIG GUY IN THE MIDDLE.

THIS IS VIRACOCHA?

THE STAFF GOD?

SO, HE LITERALLY COMES
OUT OF THESE WATERS,

AND HE SORT OF CREATES
EVERYTHING?

Gallegos: YEAH.

THE REALLY IMPRESSIVE PART
OF THIS GATE, OF COURSE,

IS JUST THE GATE ITSELF.

ANSITE

TH WAS ORIGINALLY
ONE PIECE OF STONE?

AND THEY MOVED THIS BY HAND?
-YEAH.

THAT'S THE PART OF THIS
I DON'T GET.

YES, IT IS.
IT IS.

AND EY DN'T ST ME
THIS STONE A FEW FEET.

THE ANDESITE QUARRY
IS 55 MILES AWAY,

BUT HOW IT GOT HERE

IS JUST ONE
OF THE MANY MYSTERS

SURROUNDING THE SUN GATE.

I'VE ALSO HEARD SOME VERY
OUTLANDISH STORIES ABOUT, LIKE,

ANIMALS THAT ARE HDEN HERE
IN THE GLYPHS.

SO, WHAT DO PEOPLE
SEE HERE?

AN ANCIENT ELEPHANT,

OH, WITH, LIKE,
THE EYE AND THE TRUNK HERE?

YEAH.

PREHISTORIC ELEPHANTS
DISAPPEARED FROM SOUTH AMERICA

MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS AGO,
SUGGESNG TO SOMEHAT TIWANAKU

WAS E FIT MAJOR CITY
IN HUMAN HISRY

AND INSPIRING WILD SPECULATION

THAT IT WAS BUILT
WITH ANCIENT ALIEN ASSISTANC

BUT JOSE HAS A MUCH LESS
"STARGATE"-Y THEORY.

SO, THIS IS NOT EVIDENCE
OF ICE AGE ENCOUNTERS HERE?

GOOD. OKAY.
NO, THIS IS GOOD.

WE'RE GETTING
THE REAL STORY HERE.

LIKEHIS.

Gates: MODERN ARCHAEOLOGISTS
DATE THE GATE

AND THE REST OF THE CITY
TO ABOUT 1,5 YEA AGO

NOT 10,000.

THAT STILL DOESN'T EXPLAIN
HOW THIS PLA WAS BUILT,

AND JOSE SAYS THAT NEW FINDS
AT THE SITE

ARE ONLY DEEPENING THE MYSTERY.

Gates: ONE THING
YOU CAN'T TELL IN THE DARK

IS HOW BIG
THIS PLACE IS.

HOW BIG IS IT?

TWO SQUAREILES
AH.

THAT ONLY THE PARTS
YOU'VE EXCAVATED?

YEAH.
THAT'S CRAZY.

AND THIS HUGE MOUND THAT WE SEE
OVER HERE, IS THAT NATURAL?

ALOF I

THAT'S GIGANTI

Gates: I'M IN BOLIVIA AMIDST
THE ANCIENT RUINS OF TIWANAKU,

A CITY OF GIGANTIC STONES
THAT WERE SOMEHOW MOVED HERE

NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO.

LEGENDS SAY THE CITY
WAS BUILT BY AN ENIGMATIC GOD

WHO CAME FROM THE NEBY LAKE

OR EVEN UFOS.

BUT I'M HERE F THERUTH,

AND ARCHOLOGIST
JOSEGNACIO GALLEGOS

MAY BE ABOUT TO CRACK THE CODE

ONOWHIS COLOSSAL CITY
WAS REALLY MADE.

ANTHIS HUGE MOUND THAT WE
SEE OVER HERE, IS THAT NATURAL?

ALL IT?
YE

, THIS IS
KE AYRAM?

THAT'S GIGANTI

HOMUCHF TH HASEEN
EXCAVATED?

3% OF THE PYRAMID
HAS BEEN EXCAVATED?

CRAZY.

Gate THEKAPA PYRID
A MSIVETRUCRE

THAT ONCE STOOD
FIVE STORIES TALL

AND IS WIDER THAN THE GREAT
PYRAMID OF GIZA IN EGYPT.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT,
AT THE CITY'S HEIGHT,

BETWEEN 20,000 AND 40,000 PEOPLE
LIVED OR TRAVELED HERE.

THIS CULTURE MAY HAVE
CONTROED AN EMPIRE

THAT EXTENDED FROM THE COAST
OF PERU TO BOLIVIA

AND NORTHERN CHILE.

AND THE HEART OF THAT EMPIRE WAS
THE CAPITAL CITY OF TIWANAKU,

HOME TO SOME OF
THMOSTYSTEOUS

CONSTRUCTION ITHE RLD.

D THE MOST BAFFLING OF ALL
IS THE PUMAPUNKU TEMPLE COMPLEX.

AND THIS PLACE JUST GETS
WEIRDER AND WEIRDER.

YEAH.

WHAT ARE THESE HERE?

EY ARE.
THEY'RLIKEIANT's.

FEELS LIKE LEGO SET.

SOLL TSE LTLE DENTIONS
THAT WE SEE ON THE SIDE,

ALL THESE LITTLE ELEMENTS,

THEY'RE MEANT TO LINK
THESE THINGS TOGETHER?

Gate INTERLOCKING CHANNELS
CARVED IN THE ROCKS,

MYSTERIOUS SHAPES,

CRYPTIC SYMBOLS,

AND DOORWAYS WITHIN DOORWAYS.

THE ORIGINAL FUNCTION OF THESE
RUINS HAS BEEN LOST TO TIME,

BUT RECENT EXCAVATIONS
MAY OFFER CRUCIAL CLUES.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND
THOUSANDS OF CERAMIC VESSELS

FOR DRINKING CHICHA --

AN ALCOHOL BEVERAGE
MADEROM CORN,

AS WELL AS IMAGERY
DEPICTING PSYCHEDELIRITUALS.

THEY'VE EVEN
UNCOVERED IMPLEMENTS

FOR SNORTING
HALLUCINOGENIC COMPOUN.

IN SRT,
TH PLA MAYAVE EN

THE ANCIENT EQUIVALENT
OF BURNING MAN,

A REMOAL CTER
BUILTO HOR

E ENMATIDEITIES
OF THE SUN AND THE NEARBY LAKE.

WAIT.
IS THIS ONE STONE?

NO...WAY.

Gates: THESE BLOCK
ARTHE GGESIN TANAK

AND SOME OF THE LARGEST
IN THE ANCIENT AMERICAS.

EACH WEIGHS AS MUCH AS 100 CARS,
AND CONSIDER THIS --

THE TIWANAKU
DIDN'T HAVE THE WHL,

YETHE ILDERS SOMEHOW MOVED
EVERY STONE TO THE SITE

FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE.

THIS WAS NOT HERE?
NOPE.

NO. IMPOSSIBLE.
[ LAUGHS ]

CRAZY.

tes:
ALL E STONES AT TIWANAKU

WERE QUARRIED
FROM ONE OF TWO PLAC --

FROM DEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS
10 MILES AWAY,

AND FROM THE OTHER SIDE
OF LAKE TITICACA,

MORE THAN 55 MILES AWAY.

AND IN A SUNKEN COURTYARD
NEARBY,

YOU CAN EVEN COME
FACE-TO-FACE

WITH SOME OF
THE ANCIENT BUILDERS.

WOW, LK ATHAT!

LEADERS AND PRIESTS...
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.

...KINGS.

THAT, BY THE WAY,
IS AN ALIEN.

THAT'S NOT HUMAN.
-NO.

EVEN YOU THINK
THAT DOESN'T LOOK HUMAN.

IT'S EITHER AN UGLY GUY
OR AN ALIEN,

BUT I THINK, CASE CLOSED,

THISLACEAS BLT
EXTTERRESTRIALS.

THAT'S IT.
YOU'RE RIGHT.

THIS PLACE WAS BUILT
BY ALIENS, FOR SURE.

Gates:
ALL JOKING ASIDE, JOSE BELIEVES

THE REAL ANSWER
TO HOW TIWANAKU WAS BUIL

ISN'T UP IN THE STARS,

BUT RATHER LIES HIDDEN
BENEATH OUR FEET.

REVOLUTIONARY SCANS
CONDUCTED BY UNESCO

USED 3-D IMAGING DRONES
TO BUILD A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP.

THIS MAP REVEALED DISTURBANCES
IN THE LANDSCAPE

THAT JOSE IS RACING
TO INVESTIGATE.

SO, THESE ARE THE THINGS
THAT WE OW AUT.

WHAT DID YOU FIND ON THE SCAN
THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT?

35 ACRES OF NEW FINDS?

Gates:
TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE,
THE SCAN SUGGESTS

TIWANAKU IS
ABOUT 10 TIMES LARGER

THAN ANYONE
PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

JOSE THINKS THESE FOUNDATIONS
BURIED UNDERGROUND

MAY BE THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING

HOW THE MASSIVE STONE STRUCTURES
OF TIWANAKU WERE BUILT.

SO, THAT'S A TOTALLY
BURIED STRUCTURE?

AH.

NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS?

AND WHE IS THIS IN RELATION
TO WRE WE'RE SNDING?

tes:OSE S
IMANG EERT STABY

TO INVESTIGATE
THE BURIED RIDGES.

WE MAKE OUR WAY TO THE SITE
WHERE I FIND A FAMILIAR FACE.

BOB LEONARD.

JOSH GATES,
HOW YOU DOING, BROTHER?

Gates: I LAST RKED WITH HIM
IN GUATEMALA

ON MY SEARCH FOR T TOMBS
THE MAYA AKE KINGS.

SO, WHAT'S
THE PLAN OUT HERUYS?

WELL, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING
AT JOSE'S SCANS,

AND THEY LOOK LIKE
THERE'S SOMETHG REALLY
INTERESTING HERE,

AND SO WHAT WE DO NOW
IS GO IN AND CONFIRM IT

WITHROUNPENEATIN
RADAR.

ALL RIGHT.
LET'S ROCK AND ROLL. COME ON.

Gates:PR SDS RIO WES
TO T GROD

ANCAN TECT
THE ESEN OF RUCTES

DDENORE AN
DOZEFEETOWN.

I DR THENIT
A ID PTERN

OVER THE AREA
INDICATED BY THE SCANS

WHILE BOB TAKES NOTE OF ANY
DISTURBANCES IN THE DATA.

BOB, I JUST RAN OVER
SOME COW PP.

I'M SORRY.
GREAT.

LET'S JUST CALL IT
A $15,000 PIECE OF EQUIPMENT

AND TRY TO KEEP IT OUT
OF THE [BLEEP] PLEASE.

SORRY.
I'LL DO MY BEST.

♪♪

CAN YOU HOLD IT
RIGHT THERE, JOSH?

TH LOO REALLY
INTERESTING.

E HOTHATLUE T
LOT TTERHERE?

LOOK AT THAT.

YEAH.
YEAH.

IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE
A DEPRESSION.

YEAH,
SOME KIND A PIT.

THAT DIRT LOOKS DISTURBED.

OKAY, GREAT.
LET'S GO BACK OVER THIS AIN,

SEE IF WE HIT IT
ON THE OTHER WAY.

ALL RIGHT.

Gates:
TAG OUR FIRST RADAR HIT --

AN UNUSUAL SUNKEAREA
COVED OV WITTOPSL.

IT APPEARS TO BE MAN-MADE,
SO WE CONTINUE SCANNING.

WHOA! THAT'S GETTING
SOME GOOD HITS.

LOOK AT THAT.
LOOK AT THAT.

-RIGHT THERE!
-YEAH.

YEAH, THAT'S CRAZY.

THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING
WE'VE HIT.

SEE HOW THAT BUMPS UP?

-YEAH.
-BUMPS UP.

IT'S A MONSTER.
YEAH.

SO THERE SOMETHING RIGHT
UNRNEA US

THATUNS
THIS WHOLE LENGTH RE?

YEAH.

IT SSIB
TOIG I

OKAY.
YEAH, LET'S DIG.

tes: WORRS ARRIVE ON THS

AND START CLEARINGY
THE THICK BRUSH

FOR A SMALL TEST PIT.

YOU OW, BOB, THERE ARE MORE
SHOVELS AROUND HERE, I THINK.

I CAN GET YOU ONE.

WELL, BUT MY HANDS
ARE FULL OVER HERE.

I GOT, YOU KNOW,
EXPENSIVGEAR ALL OR ME

OH, I UNDERSTAND.
I UNDERSTAND.

♪♪

THE FIRST FOOT OR SO
YIEL NOTNG.

T SOON,
FEEL SIANCE.

-OH.
-HEY

I GOSOTHING.

YOU HAVE IT DOWN THERE?
YEAH.

OH, THERE'S SOMETHING RE.
HOLD ON.

!
LOOK ATHAT!

THAT IS STONE!

Gates:
I'M ON A MISSION TO FIND OUT

W THMINDOGGLG ANENT
CITYF TINAKUAS BUILT.

STONE BLOCKS WEIGHING 100 TONS
WERE MOVED HERE FROM FAR AWAY,

BUT HOW?

NOW SATELLITE SCANS
AND OUR OWN RADAR SURVEY

HAVE REVEALED
SOMETHING HIDDEN UNDERGROUND

TH MIGHT PROVIDE THE ANSWER.

OH.

I GOT MEING.

YOU HAVE IT DOWN THERE?
YEAH.

OH, THERE'S SOMETHG HERE.
HOLD ON.

STONE?
YEAH.

HA! TH'S STONE!
LOOK AT THAT!

THAT IS STONE!

THIS IS A WALL.
AH.

IT KEEPS GOING OVER.
HEY.

I MEAN, THIS REALLY IS
THE EDGE OF A WALL.

NICE WORK, MAN.
[ LAUGHS ]

Gates:
THIS IS A MAJOR FIND,

BUT CURIOUSLY, ONE MEMBER
OF OUR TEAM ISN'T CELEBRATING.

THE GPR HIT WAS BIGGER
THAN THAT,

SO THERE'S GOT TO
BEORE LL.

OKAY, LET'S TRY AND OPEN THIS UP
THIS WAY A LITTLE BIT.

LET'S SEE
WHAT'SOWN HERE.

SO, CLAY, SOMEORT
OF A SURFACE HERE, CLAY.

WE CARULLY SCRAPE AWAY
MORE TOPSOIL.

AND...

AH, MORE STONE.

LOOK AT THAT.
CE WK, M.

LO AND BEHOLD,
THERE'S ANOTHER STRUCTURE

RUNNING PARALL TO THFIRST.

THIS ISN'T JUST A ALPIECE.

ONHEADARND ON YOUR SCANS,

THIS LOOKS LIKE IT EXTENDS
WAY OUT IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.

OKAY, SO, MILLION-DOLLAR
QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THIS?

WHATRE WLOOKG AT

LIKE CALS?

D WH ABOUT THAT SUNKEN PIT
THAT WE SAW WITH THE RADAR?

ULD THAT BE
TIED TO ALL THIS?

THAT PIT IS SOME SORT OF
WATER-COLLECTION SYSTEM

LIKE A RESERVOIR?

THERE IS EVIDENCE
ALL OVER TIWANAKU

OF THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER,

LIKE THE MYSTERIOUS STAFF GOD

WHSUPPEDLYAME
FROMHE WATERS OF THE LAKE

AND THE GUTTERS AND CHANNELS
SEEN AROUND THE MAIN TEMPLE

TO COLLECT AND CONVEY WATER
AROU THEITE.

OKAY.
WHAT'D YOU FIND?

JOSE THEORIZES THAT THE WALLS
WE JUST DISCOVERED

WERE PART OF A CANAL SYSTEM

THAT BROUGHT CONTROLLED
RIVERS OF WATER INTO THE CITY.

AND SATELLITE IMAGERY CONFIRMS

THAT THESE CANALS CONNECTED
NATURAL WATERWAYS

NEAR THE STONE QUARRY IN
THE MOUNTAINS DOWN TO THE CITY.

EVEN IF THEY HAVE THESE CANALS
COMING DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS,

HOW DO THEY GET
THE STONES DOWN THE CANALS?

YOU FLOAT THEM?

[BEP]

[ LAUGHS ]O.

HOW DOOU FAT TM?

REED BOATS?
LIKE THIS?

BOATS MADE OUT OTHIS...
-YES.

...FLOAT A 100-TON STONE?

TH STI WORWITHHIS?

IT SEEMS LIKE AN IMPROBABLE
SOLUTION

TO THE MYSTERY
OF TIWANAKU'CONSUCTI.

COULD BOATS
MA FROBLAD OF ASS

REALLY CARRY STONES
WEIGHING HUNDREDS OF TONS?

M SKTICA TO Y THLEAS

SO, I BID JOSE AND BOB FAREWELL
AND SET MY SIGHTS WEST

TO THE PLACE
WHERE THE UROS PEOPLE STILL LIVE

AND STILL CARRY ON TRADITIONS
THAT DATE BACK TO THE TIWANAKU.

♪♪

OUTSIDOF THESE CITIES
IN BOLIVIA,

THERE'A WHOLE LOOF,
WELL, NOT MUCH,

BUT THERE IS ONE SITE

THAT DOMINATES
THIS OTHERWISE DUSTY LANDSCAPE.

LAKE TITICACA.

[ RECORD SCRATCHES ]

AT ARE YOU, 12 YEARS OLD?

THAT'S THE NAME OF THE LAKE.

OKAY? THAT'S ITS NAME --

LAKE TITICACA.

LET'S JUST...
BACK TO THE PACKAGE, PLEASE.

[ CLEARSHROAT ]

AS I WAS SAYING, LAKE TITICACA

IS THE LARGEST LAKE
IN SOUTH AMERICA

AND THE HIGHEST NAVIGABLE
BODY OF WATER ON EARTH.

THE ROE TO PUNO,
WHERE E UROS PEOPLE LIVE,

THE LAKE IS SO BIG THAT IT
ACTUALLY SPANS TWO COUNTRIES,

SO IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
TO BOLIVIA...

AND HELLO TO PERU.

GRACIAS.

ACSS T SOROF BDER,

I MAKE MY WAY TO THE WESTE
SHORE OF LAKE TITICACA

AND THE VILLAGE OF PUNO.

AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER,
I MEET AN OLD FRIEND,

AN AUTHOR SPECIALIZING
IN ANCIENT ANDEAN CULTURES,

BRIEN FOERSTER,

AND AN EXPERT
IN THE UROS PEOPLE,

LOCAL GUE GUAVO RALE

THEY'VE SPENT DECADES

INVESTIGATING
TIWANAKU'S LEGENDS.

WELCOME
TO LAKE TITICACA.

BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO BE
IN THE WORLD.

I' JUSCOMEROM E RUS
AT TIWANAKU.

HOW DID THEY GET
THESE STON THE?

THE RED-SANDSTONE QUARRY
IS 10 MILES AWAY.

YEAH.

AND THE ANDESITE QUARRY'S
55 MES AWAY.

WELL, THAT'S WHY I'M HERE
BECAUSE THAT'S THE PART

THAT REALLY I COULDN'T GET
MY HEAD AROUND, YOU KNOW?

IN WORKING WITH
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST AT THE SITE,

HE WAS SAYING THAT
ONE OF THE THEIES

THEUSEDHIS UFF,
REEDS,

AND SO HE WANTED ME
TO COME MEET THE UROS PEOPLE.

NOW, WHO ARE THE UROS?
LET'S START WITH THAT.

WELL, THE UROS IS ANOTHER
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION

ALWAYS AROUND
THE LAKE TITICACA.

AND THEY WERE EXPERTS
ON BUILDING WITH RDS.

AND SO,
WHAT ABOUT THIS IDEA

THAT THEY COULD'VE CONSTRUCTED
SOMETHING OUT OF REEDS

TO MOVE TONS AND TONS
OF STONE?

IS IT POSSIBLE?

I THINK IT IS.

BUT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND,
YOU NEED TO E IT

ANWE'VARRAED AOAT

TO TAKE US ALL
TO THE UROS ISLANDS

TO GO AND VISIT
THE UROS PEOPLE.

OKAY, GREAT.
WHERE IS IT?

OUT THERE.
WAIT, IS THIS IT?

IS.
YES,HAT'S IT.

[ LAUGHS ]

IS THAT MADE OREEDS?
IT IS.

COME ON.

Gates:
THE BOAT APPROACHING THE DOCKS
IS A MARVEL OF ANCIENT DESIGN.

NEARLY EVERYTHING,

EVEN THE PUMA HEADS
ON THE FRONT,

IS MADE FROM NATURAL REEDS.

WE CLIMB ABOARD TO TEST IT OUT.

♪♪

THIS IS THE COOLEST BOAT
I'VE EVER SEEN.

I'M AMAZED BY THIS THING.

I MEAN, THESE REEDS RIGHT NOW
ARE CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF...

ONE, TWO, THREE,
FOUR, FI PEOPLE.

JU T FACTHAT WE'RE
STANDING UP HERE

MEANS THAT THESE REEDS ACTUALLY
CAN SUPPORT A LOT OF WEIGHT.

NINE TONS?

OKAY.

AND ACTUALLY, THE SIZE
OF THE BOAT IS UNLIMITED.

ALL YOU DO IS ADD MORE
AND MORE REEDS,

AND YOU GET BIGGER
AND BIGGER AND BIGGER.

RIGHT.

SO, THESE THINGS REALLY
COULD HAVE CARRIED HUGE STONES.

WELL, AS YOU'RE
ABOUT TO SEE,

TH CANARRY
A LOMOREHAN AT.

WE TAKE OUR PLANT-BASED
TRSPORFURTR IN THEAKE.

ON, SEEPECKOF LD
ON THE HORIZON.

GUSTAVO,
WHAT'S THIS AHEAD OF US?

JOSH, WELCOME TO
THE UROS ISLANDS.

THESARE N-MA?
YES, THEY ARE.

ALL MADEF RES.

OH, MAN!

Gates: I'M IN THE HEART
OF SOUTH AMERICA'S LAKE TITICACA

INVESTIGATING THE THEORY

THAT THE TIWANAKU USED BOA
MADE OF REEDS,

LI THENE I'M ON RIGHT NO

TOERRY STONES
TO THEIR CAPITAL.

IT TURNS OUT
THAT THE UROS PEOPLE

STILL USE THIS TECHNOLOGY TODA
AND ON ARAND SCALE

GUSTAVO,
WHAT'S THIS AHEAD US?

JOSH, LCOM
THEROS LAND

THESE ARE MAN-MADE?
YES, THEY ARE.

ALL MADE OF REEDS.

OH, MAN!

BEFORE US IS A SIGHT

UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE
EVER WITNESSED --

A FLOATING CIVILIZATION
BUT WI INGUITY

AND BILLIONS OF BLADES
OF LAKE GRASS.

IT'S LIKE ANOTHER WORLD.

WE DOCK OUR FLOATING SALAD,

AND I STEP OFF ONTO WHAT FEELS
LIKE TERRA FIRMA -- SORT OF.

CANN BELIEVE I'M WALKING
ON AN ISLAND MADE OF REEDS.

MM-HMM.

AND IT'S NOT JUST THE ISLAND.

THERE ARE HOUSES,
PLAYGROUNDS, KITCHENS,

HOOL ANDHIS ING
ALBUILFROMHE SE STUFF.

FAC
THERE ARE 120 REED ISLANDS

FLOANG TETHE
LAKTITICA,

AND THEY'RE GROWING
MORE OF THEM EVERY DAY.

THE REED ISLANDS ARE CAPABLE
OF SUPPORTINFISHING...

LIKE AN ICE-FISHING HOLE...
EXACY TH.

...BUT A REED-FISHING HOLE.
YES.

...AGRICULTURE, AND IF
THE CROPS AREN'T PLENTUL,

THE REEDS TURN OUT TO BE
PLENTY TASTY ON THEIR OWN.

IT TASTES LIKEELERY.
IT REALLY DOES.

YOU COULD BUIL
WITH THIS STUFF,

AND YOU COULD MAKE
A KILLER BLOODY MARY.

GIVE IT
A LITTLE STIR.

Gates:
BUT BRIEN AND GUSTAVO DIDN'T
JUST BRING ME HERE TO PROVE

THAT THESE REEDS COULD'VE
MOVED THE STONES AT TIWANAKU.

THEY'VE BEEN INVESTIGATING
ANOTR MYERY

RUMORS OF A LOST TIWANAKAN CITY

SUNKEN IN THE DEPTHS
OF LAKE TITICACA.

JOSH, SHE'S CRISTINA.
SHE'S THE CHIEF OFHIS ISLAND.

Gates:
TO HEAR THE FOLKLORE BEHIND THE
SO-CALLED ATLANTIS OF THE ANDES,

BRIAN AND GUSTAVO SIT ME DOWN
WITH THE ISLAND'S CHIEF,

CRISTINA SUAÑA COILA.

THERE'S SO MANY STORIES

OUT E TINAKU
HEREN TH LAK

WHAT DO YOUR PEOPLE
KN ABO THE

Translator:
I REMEMBER THAT, MANY TIMES,

MY GRANDFATHER WOULD
TELL US STORIES

ABOUT A TIWANAKAN CITY
UNDER LA TITICACA.

HE SAID THAT SOMETIMES,

YOU ULD E
E UNRWAT CITSHIN

BECAUSE IT WAS
MADE OUT OF GOLD.

DO YOU PUT ANY CREDENCE
IN THESE MYTHS

THAT THERE'S SOMETHING
UNDER THE LAKE?

I ALWAYS LISTEN TO WHAT
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY

BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES
THAT KNOW THEIR HISTORY.

RIGHT.

ERE E MA STOES
OUT IS LT CITY.

IT'S LIKE ATLANTIS.
RIGHT.

IF THE RUINS ARE REAL,

WHY DO YOU THINK
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN LOCATED?

THERE ARE NEW EFFORTS
TO EXPLORE THE LAKE,

AND THERE ARE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
WORKING ON THIS RIGHT NOW.

RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE?
YES, THEY ARE.

THERE ARE MANY ANCIENT SITES
ARND LAKE TITICACA

TH MOSPERUANS
DOT KN ABO.

ONE THAT WE FOUND RECENTLY HAS
A LARGE STONE COILED SERPENT,

AND THE SERPENT'S EYES
ARE FACING TIWANAKU.

AND THE AREA IS CALLED
WIYAMAA.

WIÑAYAMARCA?

WIÑAYAMARCA. AND WIÑAYAMARCA
MEANS "ETERNAL CITY."

THAT'S ITS NAME?
YE

THAT OBVIOUSLY
DESIBINA PLE

LIKELY MADE
OUT OF STONE.

RIGHT,
SOMETHING THAT LASTS.

EXACTLY.
GREAT.

CRISTINA,
THANK YOU VERY MH.

GRACIAS.
I APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU.

Gates: WHILE BRIEN AND GUSTAVO
CONTINUE THEIR RESEARCH

WITH THE UROS PEOPLE,

I CATCH A NEW RIDE
TO BEGIN MY NEW MISSIO

TO TRACK DOWN
THE TIMATE TIWAKU LEGEND --

THE LOST CITY
OF LAKE TITICACA,

THE FABLED ATLANTIS
OF THE ANDES.

NOW, THIS IS WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT.

LOOK AT THIS THING --
LAP OF LUXURY.

THIS THING EVEN HAS
ARMCHAIR ASHTRAYS.

YOU DON'T FIND THAT
ON A REED BOAT...

BECAUSE IT WOULD BE
A MAJOR FIRE HAZARD.

RIGHT NOW,
THIS HIGH-TECH HYDROFOIL

IS CARRYING ME
FROM THE UROS FLOATING ISLANDS

TO A PART OF THE LAKE CALLED
WIÑAYAMARCA, THE ETERNAL CITY.

EXPLORERS HAVE BEEN SEARCHING
DIFFERENT PARTS OF T LAKE

FOR THE FABLED UNDERWATER CITY
FOR DECADES.

IN 1968, THE GREAT
JACQUES COUSTEAU HIMSELF

SPENT WEEKS
ARCHING FOR THE RUINS.

BUT HE NEVER SEARCHED
THE WATERS OF WIÑAYAMARCA.

NOW I'M MEETING
WITH UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGIST

MARCIAL MEDINA HUANCA,

WHO HAS UNCOVERED
THE BEST EVIDENCE YET

OF THIS LOST ATLANTIS.

MARCIAL, HOLA.
MUCHO GUSTO.

JOSH.
MARCIAL.

NICE TO MEET YOU.

PLEASURE.
WHAT IS THIS?

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

Translator: THESE ARE REMAINS
OF A LOST TIWANAKU TEMPLE.

IT IS?
YES.

IT WAS A MASSIVE STRUCTURE

WITH A COILED SNAKE
CARVED AT ITS CEER,

PERHAPS REPRESENTING
A DEITY.

IT'S HUGE.
[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

Gates: MARCIAL UNCOVERED
THESE RUINS ONLY RECENTLY,

AND THEY'RE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN
TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

IF THEY WERE BUILT
BY THE TIWANAKU,

THEY WOULD BE AMONG
THE ONLY STRUCTURES

FOUND OUTSIDE
OF THEIR MAIN CAPITAL.

AND SO DO YOU THINK THERE WERE
OTHER TIWANAKU BUILDINGS HERE?

YES, I THINK THIS
WAS A CITY THAT SANK

AS THE LEVELS
OF THE LAKE CHANGED.

DO YOU THINK
THERE'S MORE OUT THE?

.
CAN YOU PROVE IT?

Sí, SE POR PROBAR.

YEAH?
SE POR PROBAR.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT.

tes: MARCIAL IS CONFIDENT
THAT THE RUINS LEAD OUT

TO AN UNDERWATER CITY.

TO TT HITHEO,
HEATO T NEAY DOCKS

TO MT HISONASCANNG TM,

KRIST GERIENE AND ROB VEAL
FROM CODISCOVERY,

A COANY ECIAZING
IN UNDERWATER SURVEY TECH.

WEEADYO GO

'RE L SE
L THE GEAR IS SET.

OKAY.

Gates:
WE CAST OFAND AD TO THE EA

DIRECTLY OFFSHORE
FROM THE TEMPLE RUINS.

THERE, WE'LL RUN A SEARCH GRID,

WORKING OUR WAY
FROM THE CENTER OF THE LAKE

BACK TOWARD THE TEMPLE.

ES AQUí.

-THIS IS IT?
-Sí.

OKAY, GREAT.
'RE RE.

YOU GUYS READY TO SCAN?

YEAH.
OKAY.

YEAH, LET'S GET INTO IT.
COME ON.

[ ENGINE STARTS ]

TO SEE IF THE RUINS ONSHOR
ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG,

WE'RE GOING TO
DEPLOY THE TEAM'S

OTHERWORLDLY LOOKING
SECRET WEAPON.

SO, THE NOVA RAY WAS DESIGNED
TO BE TOWED

OR FLY UNDER ITS OWN POWER.
GOT IT.

I'VE EQUIPPED THIS PARTICULAR
MODEL TODAY

WITH AN EXTERIOR
FORWARD-SCAN SONAR.

AWESOME.

UNDER THE WING ON E SKIDS,
I HAVE A SIDE-SCAN SONAR,

SO WE CAN LOOK SIDE TO SIDE

AT THE SAME TIME
AS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD.

THIS THING'S GOT
TWO SONAR SYSTEMS

AND ONE,WO, REE,
FO CAMAS OOARD

THAT'S CORRECT.

AND SO ARE YOU HELPING
TOANAGTHE TOW?

CORRECT. I'LL BE
ON THE BACK OF THE BOAT

MANAGING THE VEHICLE
AND THE CABLE.

GOT IT. ALL RIGHT.
WELL, LET'S GET INTO IT, GUYS.

COME ON.
LET'S DO IT.

Gates: WE GET THE UNIT
UP AND RUNNING...

-THERE WE GO.
-SHE'S IN.

...AND MONITOR
THE REINGS COMING IN

AS THE NOVA RAY STITCH
THE DATA TOGETHER,

PAINTING A DETAILED PICTURE
OF THE LAKE BED IN REAL TIME.

LOOK AT THAT.
UNBELIEVABLE.

MARCIAL, WHAT ARE WE
LOOKING FOR DOWN HE?

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

Translator: WE'RE LOOKING
FOR STONEWORK UNDERWATER,

ANYTHING THAT CAN CONNECT
TO THE RUINS WE SAW ON LAND.

Gates: AT FIRST, ALL WE SEE
IS AN ENDLESS BED OF REEDS.

♪♪

AND THEN WE CK USOMEING
UNUSL, SETHI BIG

RIGHTHER
OK ATHAT.

SOMETHING JUST WENT
RIGHT BY THE CAMERA.

YEP, THAT HAD A NICE
STRAIGHT LINE.

ERE'S SOMETHING ERE.

EXCELEE!

Gates:
ALL ALONG THE EDGE

OF LAKE TITICACA
IN BOLIVIA AND PERU

ARE ANCIENRUIN
WHE ORINS D MEINGS

REMAIN SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.

BUT ABOUT 50 MILES
FROM THE BORDER,

THERE'S ONE SITE
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO VISIT.

SO, THIS IS INCREDIBLE.

THIS IS THE SO-CALLED
GATE OF THE GODS.

THIS GIGANTIC STONE
CARVED DOORWAY

THAT MAY DATE BACK TO THE INCA
OR EVEN TO THE TIWANAKU.

NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE
WHO MADE THE CARVING OR WHY,

T LEND HDS
AT AINCARIEST

FLEEING SPANISH CONQUISTADORS

CAME HERE WITH A SACRED ARTIFACT
CALLED THE GOLDEN SUN DISC.

HE INSERTED IT INTO A CIRCULAR
NOTCH IN THE CARVING

AND WAS MIRACULOUSLY
TELEPORTED TO SAFETY.

SO, I DON'T HAPPEN TO HAVE
A GOLDUN DC,

BUT ACCORDING TO THE STORY,
IF YOU JUST STEP INTO THE GATE,

YOU'LL ACTUALLY DISA--

GUYS!
GUYS, IT WORKS!

IT TALLY WORKS!

WHAT?
WHOO!

Gates:
I'M INOUTH AMECA

INVESTIGATING THE LEGEND
OF AN ANCIENT CITY

BUILT BY THE MYSTERIOUS
TIWANAKU CIVILIZATION

THAT MAY BE LOST
IN THE DEPTHS OF LAKE TITICACA.

WE'VE USED SONAR TO SCAN
THE LAKE BED FOR RUINS

AND JUST GOT A SIGNIFICANT HIT.

RIT THE,
OK ATHAT

SOMETHING JUST WENT
RIGHBY T CAMA.

YEP, THAT HAD A NICE
STRAIGHT LINE.

THERS SOMETHING ERE.

EXCELEE!

THAT COULD BE A STONE.

D THOSE STONES WOULD BE MADE
OUT OF WHAT MATERIAL?

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]
[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

ANDESITE.

ANDESITE -- THE EXACT TYPE
OF STONE WE SAW AT TIWANAKU.

THIS COULD BE
A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH.

MARCIAL AND I QUICKLY
GEAR UP TO INVESTIGATE.

HIGH-ALTITUDE DIVING, THOUGH,
IS NO JOKE.

BECAUSE WE'RE AT 12,500 FEET,

THE PRESSURE UNDERWATER
IS THREE TIMES MORE INTENSE,

WHICH MEANS
LESS TIME AT THE BOTTOM.

♪♪

♪♪

BEATTHE AT,
THE WAR IS CLE,

BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
IT'S EASY TO SEE.

WE CAREFULLY ENTER
AN EERIE FOREST OF REEDS.

♪♪

♪♪

WEONTINUE SEARCHING
FOR CUT STONE,

BUT IT'S LIKE LOOKING FOR
A NEEDLE IN A REED STACK,

AND EVERY TIME WE TOUCH
THE BOTTOM,

GE CUDS SILRISEP
TO PLUNGE US INTO TWILIGHT.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING.

WE HAVE JU 20 MINUTELEFT

BERE WE'LL BFORCED
TO ASCEND.

LUCKILY, THE THICK
VEGETATION CLEARS,

REVEALING SOMETHING
TRULY INCREDIBLE.

THE WALL STRETCHES OUT
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.

WE FOLLOW IT AND REACH
A FAR LARGER STRUCTURE,

RUINS OF SOMETHING BIG, PERHAPS
EVEN THE REMAI OF A CITY.

♪♪

WEE BO STUNNED
BY THE DISCOVERY

AND DEEPLYUT OF BREATH
FROM THE ALTITUDE.

MARCIAL AND I MAKE A FEW
MORE LAPS AROUND THE RUINS

AND EN RURN
TO T SURCE.

WHOO!

WOW!

UNBELIEVABLE.

IT'S THIS HUGE STRUCTURE.
-MUC.

YEAH,
THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF,

AND U CAN SEE
ALL THE CUT STONES.

[ SPEAKI SPANISH ]

Translator:
WE FOUND WALL AFTER WALL.

IT'S CRAZY.

YOU THINK THIS COULD BE
RT OF A CITY?

Sí.

ANWHAT PERCEAGE OFHIS LAKE
HAVE YOU SEARCHED?

Translator: 0.001%

ANWHAT PERCEAGE OFHIS LAKE
HAVETH'S IT?RCHED?

[ LAUGHS
NOTHING.

A LOT OF WORK LEFT
TO BE DONE.

HEY, GREAT JOB.

OH, THATAS AWESOME.

WHOO!
LOCO.

CRAZY.
LOCO IS RIGHT

THAT'S LOCO.

Gates:
MARCIAL AND HIS COLLEAGUES
WILL RETURN TO THE SITE

WITH MORE RESOURCES TO SEE
IF THE ATLANTIS OF THE ANDES

IS AS EXTENSIVE
AS LEGENDS CLAIM.

THE TIWANAKU WORSHIPPED
AN ENIGMATIC GOD

WHO CAME FROM E LA,

WHICH SEEMS FITTING
SINCE THESE WATERS APPEAR

TO HAVE BOTH CREATED AND
DESTROYED THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

DISCOVERIES SUGGEST
THEIR CAPITAL

WAS A PLACE
OF MIND-ALTERING RITUALS

BROUGHT TO LIFE BY CANALS

USED TO FLOAT
MASTERFUL MONUMENTS INTO PLACE.

♪♪

AND NOT SES
ANOTHER OF THEIR CITIES

MAY HAVE BEEN DROWD
BENEATH THE WAVES.

BUT THANKS TO THE DETERMINED
CHAEOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS

INVESTIGATING
THE TIWANAKUS' HISTORY,

THE TRUE EXTENT
OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS...

IS FINALLY BEING REVEALED.

♪♪