Original subtitles

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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