1 00:00:01,344 --> 00:00:02,517 Gates: So Atahualpa 2 00:00:02,517 --> 00:00:04,689 Really Is The Last Of The Great Incan Emperors? 3 00:00:04,689 --> 00:00:05,758 Exactly, Yes. 4 00:00:05,758 --> 00:00:07,241 ♪♪ 5 00:00:07,241 --> 00:00:09,689 If We're Looking For Atahualpa, That's The Place To Look? 6 00:00:09,689 --> 00:00:12,758 That's The Place. 7 00:00:12,758 --> 00:00:16,068 The Jungles Swallow Everything. 8 00:00:16,068 --> 00:00:18,137 [ Whispers ] Oh, Man. Look At This. 9 00:00:18,137 --> 00:00:20,724 This Is Some Indiana Jones [Bleep] Right Here. 10 00:00:20,724 --> 00:00:22,206 Feels Like The Top Of The World. 11 00:00:22,206 --> 00:00:24,172 The Mummy Of Atahualpa Could've Been Right Here. 12 00:00:24,172 --> 00:00:25,413 That's Right. 13 00:00:25,413 --> 00:00:26,758 ♪♪ 14 00:00:26,758 --> 00:00:29,655 -Josh, Come Here! -What Do You Got? 15 00:00:29,655 --> 00:00:32,068 -I Don't Know What It Is! -Ooh. 16 00:00:32,068 --> 00:00:33,586 [ Bleep ] 17 00:00:33,586 --> 00:00:38,827 ♪♪ 18 00:00:38,827 --> 00:00:44,034 ♪♪ 19 00:00:44,034 --> 00:00:45,448 When You Think Of A Mummy, 20 00:00:45,448 --> 00:00:48,724 You Might Envision A Dusty, Cloth-Wrapped Monster 21 00:00:48,724 --> 00:00:51,344 Dragging Itself Through A Torch-Lit Tomb. 22 00:00:51,344 --> 00:00:53,206 In Hollywood, These Undead Rulers 23 00:00:53,206 --> 00:00:54,655 Are Always On The Move. 24 00:00:54,655 --> 00:00:57,551 But It Turns Out There's One Real-Life Mummy 25 00:00:57,551 --> 00:01:00,482 That Also Refuses To Stay In One Place. 26 00:01:02,517 --> 00:01:04,448 His Name Is Atahualpa. 27 00:01:04,448 --> 00:01:07,206 He Was The Last King Of The Inca Empire. 28 00:01:07,206 --> 00:01:10,551 His Reign Ended When Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro 29 00:01:10,551 --> 00:01:13,379 Murdered Him And Brought The Inca Civilization 30 00:01:13,379 --> 00:01:15,241 To Its Knees. 31 00:01:15,241 --> 00:01:18,275 But Atahualpa Retained Great Power And Wealth, 32 00:01:18,275 --> 00:01:21,689 Even In Death. 33 00:01:21,689 --> 00:01:24,551 Like All Incan Kings, His Body Was Mummified 34 00:01:24,551 --> 00:01:26,448 In A Sacred Ritual Designed 35 00:01:26,448 --> 00:01:30,586 To Give Him Supernatural Sway Over The World Of The Living. 36 00:01:30,586 --> 00:01:33,068 And Then His Body Vanished. 37 00:01:33,068 --> 00:01:36,172 ♪♪ 38 00:01:36,172 --> 00:01:38,517 It Was Long Believed That Atahualpa Was Buried 39 00:01:38,517 --> 00:01:39,931 Where He Died In Peru. 40 00:01:39,931 --> 00:01:42,965 But Recently Unearthed Documents Suggest That His Body 41 00:01:42,965 --> 00:01:45,172 Was Secretly Carried Back To Ecuador 42 00:01:45,172 --> 00:01:48,482 To Empower An Incan Army. 43 00:01:48,482 --> 00:01:51,068 In The Ecuadorian Highlands, A Team Of Archaeologists 44 00:01:51,068 --> 00:01:52,931 Are Investigating Forgotten Ruins 45 00:01:52,931 --> 00:01:55,413 That May Be Linked To The Mummy's Tomb. 46 00:01:55,413 --> 00:01:56,620 And, For The First Time, 47 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:58,689 They're Using Aerial Scanning Technology 48 00:01:58,689 --> 00:02:04,241 To Hunt For Answers In Some Of The Densest Jungles On Earth. 49 00:02:04,241 --> 00:02:06,241 They Say You Can Rest When You're Dead, 50 00:02:06,241 --> 00:02:08,000 But Not If You're An Incan Mummy. 51 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,482 I'm Heading To South America To Join The Search 52 00:02:10,482 --> 00:02:12,862 For The Last Great King Of The Inca 53 00:02:12,862 --> 00:02:15,103 And A Legend That Refuses To Die. 54 00:02:15,103 --> 00:02:21,551 ♪♪ 55 00:02:21,551 --> 00:02:24,862 My Name Is Josh Gates. 56 00:02:24,862 --> 00:02:29,689 With A Degree In Archaeology And A Passion For Exploration, 57 00:02:29,689 --> 00:02:32,793 I Have A Tendency To End Up In Some Very Strange Situations. 58 00:02:32,793 --> 00:02:34,551 Good Lord! 59 00:02:34,551 --> 00:02:36,862 Aah! [ Laughs ] 60 00:02:36,862 --> 00:02:39,620 My Travels Have Taken Me To The Ends Of The Earth 61 00:02:39,620 --> 00:02:42,862 As I Investigate The Greatest Legends In History. 62 00:02:42,862 --> 00:02:44,000 We're Good To Fly. Let's Go. 63 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,689 This Is... 64 00:02:46,689 --> 00:02:49,689 --Captions By Vitac-- Www.Vitac.Com 65 00:02:49,689 --> 00:02:52,689 Captions Paid For By Discovery Communications 66 00:02:54,724 --> 00:02:55,793 [ Blows Air ] 67 00:02:55,793 --> 00:02:58,586 So This Is Where Our Story Begins. 68 00:02:58,586 --> 00:03:02,172 We Are In Ecuador, And I'm Standing In The Palace 69 00:03:02,172 --> 00:03:05,620 Of The Last Of The Great Incan Kings, Atahualpa. 70 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:08,896 But You Won't Find Any Stately Ruins 71 00:03:08,896 --> 00:03:10,172 To Admire Here Today. 72 00:03:10,172 --> 00:03:13,551 The Only Thing Down Here Now Are Ghosts. 73 00:03:16,689 --> 00:03:19,827 What Was Once A Palace Is Now A Tomb. 74 00:03:19,827 --> 00:03:23,068 This Is A Catacomb. 75 00:03:23,068 --> 00:03:25,689 But The Only Remains Of Atahualpa's Palace 76 00:03:25,689 --> 00:03:28,620 Come In The Form Of Broken Bricks. 77 00:03:28,620 --> 00:03:30,896 And As For The Mummy Of The Great Leader, 78 00:03:30,896 --> 00:03:32,034 It Is Nowhere To Be Found. 79 00:03:32,034 --> 00:03:34,000 Trust Me. I've Looked. 80 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,551 The Bones That You See Down Here, 81 00:03:35,551 --> 00:03:38,344 Those Are The Remains Of Spanish Priests. 82 00:03:38,344 --> 00:03:40,517 And, 500 Years Ago, The Spanish 83 00:03:40,517 --> 00:03:45,620 Transformed This Incan World Above Into A Catholic Empire. 84 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:47,068 [ Blows Air ] 85 00:03:47,068 --> 00:03:49,517 This Is The San Francisco Church. 86 00:03:49,517 --> 00:03:51,620 ♪♪ 87 00:03:51,620 --> 00:03:54,551 It Was Built By The Spanish In 1534 88 00:03:54,551 --> 00:03:57,344 On The Still-Smoking Ruins Of Atahualpa's Throne. 89 00:04:02,137 --> 00:04:05,517 13 Cloisters, 3 Churches, Sprawling Courtyards. 90 00:04:05,517 --> 00:04:09,137 There's Even A Winery In Here Somewhere. 91 00:04:09,137 --> 00:04:10,551 As For The Decorations, Well, 92 00:04:10,551 --> 00:04:12,310 They're Not Exactly Understated -- 93 00:04:12,310 --> 00:04:13,689 Gold Upon Gold. 94 00:04:13,689 --> 00:04:15,034 But Atahualpa's Mother 95 00:04:15,034 --> 00:04:17,448 And His Son Are Both Entombed Here. 96 00:04:17,448 --> 00:04:19,862 And Among The 3,000 Or So Paintings 97 00:04:19,862 --> 00:04:23,000 Are Depictions Of Incas Converting To Christianity... 98 00:04:25,448 --> 00:04:27,448 ...Voluntarily, I'm Sure. 99 00:04:27,448 --> 00:04:30,448 When Conquistador Francisco Pizarro First Met The Inca, 100 00:04:30,448 --> 00:04:33,206 They Were The Largest Empire In The Americas. 101 00:04:33,206 --> 00:04:35,655 They Were Advanced In Mathematics And Astronomy, 102 00:04:35,655 --> 00:04:37,862 Master Road-Builders Of The Andes. 103 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:40,655 Yet, Pizarro Decimated Their Entire Empire 104 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:43,275 In Less Than 2 Years. 105 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:45,241 Now, Standing On Top Of One Culture 106 00:04:45,241 --> 00:04:46,793 And Within Another... 107 00:04:46,793 --> 00:04:51,275 I'm About To Emerge Into A Third. 108 00:04:51,275 --> 00:04:54,137 [ People Singing In Native Language ] 109 00:04:54,137 --> 00:04:57,517 ♪♪ 110 00:04:57,517 --> 00:05:00,724 Incredible Quito, The Beating Heart Of Ecuador, 111 00:05:00,724 --> 00:05:02,103 Cradled In A Valley 112 00:05:02,103 --> 00:05:05,068 Nearly 10,000 Feet Up In The Andes. 113 00:05:05,068 --> 00:05:07,689 ♪♪ 114 00:05:07,689 --> 00:05:09,310 It's Incan Roots May Be Buried, 115 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:12,482 But Its Spanish Overlay Is Nothing Short Of Breathtaking. 116 00:05:12,482 --> 00:05:14,137 This Is, Bar None, 117 00:05:14,137 --> 00:05:17,379 The Best Preserved Colonial City On The Continent. 118 00:05:20,034 --> 00:05:24,827 ♪♪ 119 00:05:24,827 --> 00:05:26,344 And Maybe It's The Lack Of Oxygen, 120 00:05:26,344 --> 00:05:29,758 But The Atmosphere In Quito Feels Utterly Relaxed. 121 00:05:29,758 --> 00:05:31,758 ♪♪ 122 00:05:31,758 --> 00:05:34,344 Folks Here Truly Aren't Afraid To Have Fun. 123 00:05:34,344 --> 00:05:37,448 Sir, Please. I'm A Visitor In This Country. 124 00:05:37,448 --> 00:05:41,793 Yes. Okay. He Won't Let Go. 125 00:05:41,793 --> 00:05:43,482 Seriously, He Won't Let Go Of Me. 126 00:05:43,482 --> 00:05:46,931 ♪♪ 127 00:05:46,931 --> 00:05:48,413 Once I Managed To Escape, 128 00:05:48,413 --> 00:05:51,172 I Beelined For The City's True Claim To Fame. 129 00:05:51,172 --> 00:05:53,689 This Is Probably The Most Famous Site In Ecuador. 130 00:05:53,689 --> 00:05:55,068 And It's A Memorial 131 00:05:55,068 --> 00:05:58,448 That Commemorates The 1739 French Geodesic Expedition 132 00:05:58,448 --> 00:06:00,379 That Mapped The Circumference Of The World, 133 00:06:00,379 --> 00:06:02,655 Established The Meter As A Unit Of Measurement 134 00:06:02,655 --> 00:06:08,413 And Declared This Place What We Now Know As The Equator. 135 00:06:08,413 --> 00:06:12,172 Welcome To Mitad Del Mundo, Or The Center Of The World. 136 00:06:12,172 --> 00:06:14,896 The Monument Is Modeled After An Inca Temple. 137 00:06:14,896 --> 00:06:16,689 On One Side, The Northern Hemisphere. 138 00:06:16,689 --> 00:06:18,344 On The Other, The Southern. 139 00:06:18,344 --> 00:06:20,827 A Breathtaking View Of The Middle Of The Planet. 140 00:06:20,827 --> 00:06:22,034 Oh, Just One Thing. 141 00:06:22,034 --> 00:06:24,620 It Is Slightly In The Wrong Place. 142 00:06:24,620 --> 00:06:27,793 Wait, What? That Can't Be True. Is That True? 143 00:06:27,793 --> 00:06:29,413 Yeah, It's Down The Street. 144 00:06:29,413 --> 00:06:31,862 [ Sighs ] Okay. Pack It Up, Boys. Come On. 145 00:06:31,862 --> 00:06:33,827 ♪♪ 146 00:06:33,827 --> 00:06:35,586 Let's Try This Again. 147 00:06:35,586 --> 00:06:38,862 [ Music Rewinding ] 148 00:06:38,862 --> 00:06:42,344 I Walk 787 Feet To Meet Mayra, A Park Ranger 149 00:06:42,344 --> 00:06:45,275 And Educator At The Place Global Positioning Satellites 150 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:48,758 Say Is The Actual Zero-Zero-Zero. 151 00:06:48,758 --> 00:06:50,172 This Is The Real Equator? 152 00:06:50,172 --> 00:06:51,551 -This Is The Real Equator. -Mm-Hmm. 153 00:06:51,551 --> 00:06:53,206 Because I've Been -- I've Been Lied To Before. 154 00:06:53,206 --> 00:06:54,896 -Did You Go To The Monument? -I Did. 155 00:06:54,896 --> 00:06:57,448 -That's The Old Equator. -Right. 156 00:06:57,448 --> 00:06:59,137 -And This Is The New... -Right. 157 00:06:59,137 --> 00:07:02,482 -...More Accurate Equator Line. -That's The Fake-Quator. 158 00:07:02,482 --> 00:07:04,068 Fake Equator. 159 00:07:04,068 --> 00:07:07,000 No, I'm Tryin' To Sell You On One Word Here -- Fake-Quator. 160 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,034 Fake-Quator. All Right. Yeah, That Can Be, Uh... 161 00:07:09,034 --> 00:07:10,103 -Did I Just Come Up With That? -Yes. 162 00:07:10,103 --> 00:07:11,448 163 00:07:11,448 --> 00:07:13,275 [ Giggles ] 164 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:15,448 Both Monuments Are Pretty Awesome, Actually. 165 00:07:15,448 --> 00:07:16,965 This One Is Decidedly Kitschier, 166 00:07:16,965 --> 00:07:19,758 Complete With Supposedly Scientific Demonstrations 167 00:07:19,758 --> 00:07:22,793 Of Water Draining Clockwise In The Southern Hemisphere 168 00:07:22,793 --> 00:07:24,655 And The Other Way In The North. 169 00:07:24,655 --> 00:07:27,275 Mayra Also Claims That, At The Truequator, 170 00:07:27,275 --> 00:07:30,241 You Can Balance An Egg Upright On A Nail. 171 00:07:30,241 --> 00:07:32,724 Ah, There You Go. Very Good. 172 00:07:32,724 --> 00:07:35,379 Huh? Huh? How 'Bout That? I Have To Say, 173 00:07:35,379 --> 00:07:38,310 That Was Eggs-Tremely Difficult. I Mean, That Was... 174 00:07:38,310 --> 00:07:39,586 -You Did An Awesome Job. -Thank You. 175 00:07:39,586 --> 00:07:41,586 That Was Not Over Easy. 176 00:07:41,586 --> 00:07:43,655 Seriously, I Could Do These Yolks All Day. 177 00:07:46,068 --> 00:07:47,793 Along With These Modern Monuments, 178 00:07:47,793 --> 00:07:50,103 There Are Also Ruins In The Nearby Hills. 179 00:07:50,103 --> 00:07:52,344 Turns Out The Inca Managed To Find The Equator 180 00:07:52,344 --> 00:07:54,965 Without Satellites 500 Years Ago. 181 00:07:54,965 --> 00:07:56,068 To Learn More About Them 182 00:07:56,068 --> 00:07:58,068 And About Their Powerful Missing Mummy, 183 00:07:58,068 --> 00:08:02,413 I'm Heading For A Meeting At Quito's Ministry Of Culture. 184 00:08:02,413 --> 00:08:05,482 Very Recently, A Trove Of Previously Unknown Documents 185 00:08:05,482 --> 00:08:06,896 Was Discovered Here. 186 00:08:06,896 --> 00:08:09,965 And Historian Pablo Garcia Believes They May Hold The Key 187 00:08:09,965 --> 00:08:13,689 To Finding The Last Great King Of The Inca. 188 00:08:13,689 --> 00:08:15,758 This Is An -- An Incredible Archive. 189 00:08:15,758 --> 00:08:16,931 Yes, And This Institution 190 00:08:16,931 --> 00:08:19,448 We Hold 1,500,000, Uh, Documents 191 00:08:19,448 --> 00:08:21,448 From The History Of Ecuador. 192 00:08:21,448 --> 00:08:22,655 And Have You Read Through All Of Them? 193 00:08:22,655 --> 00:08:25,034 -I Wish I Had The Time. No. -[ Laughs ] 194 00:08:25,034 --> 00:08:28,413 So Atahualpa Really Is The Last Of The Great Incan Emperors? 195 00:08:28,413 --> 00:08:29,965 Exactly, Yes, Definitely. 196 00:08:29,965 --> 00:08:31,482 When Did They Come To Ecuador? 197 00:08:31,482 --> 00:08:32,724 Early 1500S. 198 00:08:32,724 --> 00:08:35,172 -Why Did They Come Here? -The Equator. 199 00:08:35,172 --> 00:08:39,413 Closer To The Sun To Worship Their Most Important God. 200 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:43,241 In 1532, Atahualpa Has Just Killed His Own Brother 201 00:08:43,241 --> 00:08:45,137 To Unite The Inca Kingdoms 202 00:08:45,137 --> 00:08:49,241 And Is Now Emperor Of A Newly Consolidated Incan Empire. 203 00:08:49,241 --> 00:08:52,517 And Then What Happens?Pizarro Happens. 204 00:08:52,517 --> 00:08:56,000 While Atahualpa Takes Power, Conquistador Francisco Pizarro 205 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,793 Sails To South America With Only 200 Spanish Soldiers. 206 00:08:59,793 --> 00:09:03,896 Atahualpa, On The Other Hand, Has 80,000 Men At His Command. 207 00:09:03,896 --> 00:09:07,344 He Invites Pizarro To Meet In The Town Of Cajamarca, Peru. 208 00:09:07,344 --> 00:09:09,344 However, Pizarro Arrives First 209 00:09:09,344 --> 00:09:11,241 And With The Benefit Of Spanish Guns, 210 00:09:11,241 --> 00:09:13,103 Ambushes The Incan King. 211 00:09:13,103 --> 00:09:16,793 ♪♪ 212 00:09:16,793 --> 00:09:18,655 Atahualpa Is Kidnapped And Locked 213 00:09:18,655 --> 00:09:20,586 In A So-Called Ransom Room. 214 00:09:20,586 --> 00:09:22,206 Pizarro Promises To Release Him 215 00:09:22,206 --> 00:09:24,275 Only If He Can Fill The Chamber Twice Over 216 00:09:24,275 --> 00:09:26,620 With Pure Gold And Silver. 217 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:30,241 Amazingly, Atahualpa Fulfills The Request And Then, 218 00:09:30,241 --> 00:09:32,827 In One Of History's Most Appalling Double Crosses, 219 00:09:32,827 --> 00:09:37,551 Pizarro Sentences Him To Death By Burning. 220 00:09:37,551 --> 00:09:40,586 Atahualpa Begs The Spaniards Not To Be Burned. 221 00:09:40,586 --> 00:09:42,482 Every Dynasty, 222 00:09:42,482 --> 00:09:45,448 Their Remains Had To Be Maintained And Mummified. 223 00:09:45,448 --> 00:09:47,172 They Would Dress Them. They Would Feed Them. 224 00:09:47,172 --> 00:09:49,172 They -- Their Palaces Were Kept. 225 00:09:49,172 --> 00:09:52,000 -Were They Seen As Magical? -Supernatural, Yes, Sir. 226 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,068 So He Requested To Be Killed In A Different Way. 227 00:09:56,068 --> 00:09:57,896 If Atahualpa Leaves No Mummy, 228 00:09:57,896 --> 00:09:59,793 He'll Have No Power In The Afterlife. 229 00:09:59,793 --> 00:10:02,137 So He Agrees To Convert To Christianity. 230 00:10:02,137 --> 00:10:05,275 And, In Return, Pizarro Grants Him Bizarre Mercy -- 231 00:10:05,275 --> 00:10:07,310 A Death By Strangulation. 232 00:10:09,586 --> 00:10:12,379 Atahualpa Will Remain All Powerful. 233 00:10:12,379 --> 00:10:15,310 His Mummy Is Buried Where He Fell In Cajamarca, 234 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:19,620 Or So It's Been Thought For The Last 450 Years. 235 00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:21,344 In The History Books, I've Read 236 00:10:21,344 --> 00:10:24,103 That The Body Gets Buried In Peru. 237 00:10:24,103 --> 00:10:26,448 -Yes. -So Why Am I In Ecuador? 238 00:10:26,448 --> 00:10:28,586 'Cause There's A Different Version Of The Story. 239 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:34,793 ♪♪ 240 00:10:34,793 --> 00:10:38,103 A Curator Carries In A Box From Deep In The Archives. 241 00:10:38,103 --> 00:10:41,310 Inside Is Something That Could Change History As We Know It 242 00:10:41,310 --> 00:10:44,275 And Perhaps Lead To A Supernatural Mummy. 243 00:10:44,275 --> 00:10:48,241 ♪♪ 244 00:10:54,103 --> 00:10:56,034 Gates: In Ecuador's National Archives, 245 00:10:56,034 --> 00:10:59,413 Historian Pablo Garcia Shows Me Newly Found Documents 246 00:10:59,413 --> 00:11:01,724 That May Point The Way To The Lost Mummy 247 00:11:01,724 --> 00:11:04,551 Of The Emperor, Atahualpa. 248 00:11:04,551 --> 00:11:05,724 Garcia: We Are Looking Right At The Moment 249 00:11:05,724 --> 00:11:07,482 At 500-Year-Old Documents. 250 00:11:07,482 --> 00:11:09,413 -Wow. -This Is Astounding. 251 00:11:09,413 --> 00:11:11,448 This Is A Chronicle By One Of The Sailors 252 00:11:11,448 --> 00:11:13,172 That Came Along With Francisco Pizarro 253 00:11:13,172 --> 00:11:15,448 Along The Conquest In 1500S. 254 00:11:15,448 --> 00:11:17,620 He Was The Witness Of A Great Procession 255 00:11:17,620 --> 00:11:20,413 Carrying This, Uh, Remains Of A Dead Person. 256 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:22,241 Does He Mention Atahualpa By Name? 257 00:11:22,241 --> 00:11:24,586 No, He Doesn't, But It Must've Been Him Because, 258 00:11:24,586 --> 00:11:27,068 After The Murder Of Atahualpa In Cajamarca, 259 00:11:27,068 --> 00:11:29,689 One Of The Generals Of The Empire, Rumiñawi, 260 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,793 Went To Recuperate His Remains. 261 00:11:31,793 --> 00:11:33,448 Since The Mummy Was Believed 262 00:11:33,448 --> 00:11:35,068 To Have Supernatural Powers, 263 00:11:35,068 --> 00:11:38,206 Rumiñawi Likely Wanted It To Help Command His Army. 264 00:11:38,206 --> 00:11:39,724 The Procession Would Have Traveled 265 00:11:39,724 --> 00:11:42,137 More Than 600 Miles Toward Quito. 266 00:11:42,137 --> 00:11:44,379 But Where The Remains Were Entombed -- 267 00:11:44,379 --> 00:11:46,965 Well, That's The Mystery. 268 00:11:46,965 --> 00:11:49,413 Originally, Uh, Historians Discovered The Will 269 00:11:49,413 --> 00:11:50,931 Of Atahualpa's Son. 270 00:11:50,931 --> 00:11:53,448 Wow. And What Is The Date Of This Document? 271 00:11:53,448 --> 00:11:55,000 1583. 272 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,931 How Astounding Is It To See Something Like This 273 00:11:57,931 --> 00:11:59,620 From The 16Th Century. 274 00:11:59,620 --> 00:12:02,206 What Does The Will Of Atahualpa's Son Reveal? 275 00:12:02,206 --> 00:12:05,310 It Shows Where This Family Maintained Property. 276 00:12:05,310 --> 00:12:06,586 There Is A Possibility 277 00:12:06,586 --> 00:12:09,034 That This, Uh, Section Of Ecuador 278 00:12:09,034 --> 00:12:12,241 Is The Place Where The, Uh, Remains Were Buried. 279 00:12:12,241 --> 00:12:14,310 Would It Have Been Common To Put A Sacred Mummy 280 00:12:14,310 --> 00:12:16,758 On Family Land Like This? -For Sure. 281 00:12:16,758 --> 00:12:18,793 Atahualpa Was Born In The Kingdom Of Quito, 282 00:12:18,793 --> 00:12:20,172 So It Was The Ideal Place 283 00:12:20,172 --> 00:12:22,931 To Go And Hide The Remains Of The King Of The Empire. 284 00:12:22,931 --> 00:12:24,413 Gates: Even More Intriguing, 285 00:12:24,413 --> 00:12:26,586 Archaeologists Have Identified A Set Of Ruins 286 00:12:26,586 --> 00:12:29,000 Within This Land Known As Malqui-Machay 287 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,310 That Appear To Be Incan In Origin. 288 00:12:31,310 --> 00:12:33,137 Could This Be The Final Resting Place 289 00:12:33,137 --> 00:12:35,068 Of Atahualpa's Divine Mummy? 290 00:12:35,068 --> 00:12:36,275 These Are The Pieces Of The Puzzle 291 00:12:36,275 --> 00:12:38,793 That Will Lead To The Remains Of Atahualpa. 292 00:12:38,793 --> 00:12:43,379 ♪♪ 293 00:12:43,379 --> 00:12:46,965 I Grab A 4X4 And Head To The Ruins Of Malqui-Machay 294 00:12:46,965 --> 00:12:52,000 Where A Team Of Archaeologists Are Investigating The Lead. 295 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,758 Considering I'm Headed Well Off The Grid 296 00:12:53,758 --> 00:12:55,448 In The Ecuadorian Highlands, 297 00:12:55,448 --> 00:12:58,137 I'll Need To Make A Pit Stop To Grab Some Supplies. 298 00:12:59,689 --> 00:13:03,551 [ People Singing In Native Language ] 299 00:13:03,551 --> 00:13:06,068 Just Outside Of Quito Is Saquisilí, 300 00:13:06,068 --> 00:13:08,241 And Every Thursday, There's A Market In Town. 301 00:13:08,241 --> 00:13:10,068 Or, More Accurately, The Entire Town 302 00:13:10,068 --> 00:13:11,206 Turns Into A Market -- 303 00:13:11,206 --> 00:13:13,482 A Giant, Open-Air Department Store. 304 00:13:13,482 --> 00:13:16,137 First Priority Is, As Always, Food. 305 00:13:16,137 --> 00:13:17,931 Buenos Días. ¿Cuánto Cuesta? How Much? 306 00:13:17,931 --> 00:13:18,931 $1. 307 00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:20,448 -For All This? -Todo. 308 00:13:20,448 --> 00:13:22,862 Man, I'm Gettin' Totally Ripped Off On Bananas 309 00:13:22,862 --> 00:13:24,827 Back At Home, It Turns Out. 310 00:13:24,827 --> 00:13:26,413 ♪♪ 311 00:13:26,413 --> 00:13:28,241 The Market Offers A Lot On The Menu, 312 00:13:28,241 --> 00:13:30,068 Some Of It Unusual... 313 00:13:30,068 --> 00:13:32,551 I May Need A Toilet In The Next 35 Seconds. 314 00:13:32,551 --> 00:13:34,517 Some Of It Downright Adorable. 315 00:13:34,517 --> 00:13:36,379 Ma'am, How Much For All Of Them? 316 00:13:36,379 --> 00:13:38,586 I'm Setting You Free.[ Laughs ] 317 00:13:38,586 --> 00:13:40,827 I Quickly Grab Some Gear For Jungle Trekking. 318 00:13:40,827 --> 00:13:42,827 -How Much Is The Backpack? -Veinte Dólares. 319 00:13:42,827 --> 00:13:44,724 $20? Okay. I'll Take It. 320 00:13:44,724 --> 00:13:46,034 Can You Throw In The Toilet Paper, Too? 321 00:13:46,034 --> 00:13:47,103 Sí. 322 00:13:47,103 --> 00:13:48,206 I'm Gonna Need Every Roll, Ma'am. 323 00:13:48,206 --> 00:13:49,689 It's Been A Good Haul. 324 00:13:49,689 --> 00:13:52,275 Papa's Got A Brand-New Bag, A Bunch Of Bananas 325 00:13:52,275 --> 00:13:54,000 And A [Bleep]-Load Of Tp. 326 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,137 Time To Hit The Highway... 327 00:13:56,137 --> 00:13:58,413 Or What Passes For A Highway Up Here. 328 00:13:58,413 --> 00:14:04,724 ♪♪ 329 00:14:04,724 --> 00:14:06,034 A Few Hours South Of The Capital 330 00:14:06,034 --> 00:14:09,103 And The Landscape Turns Positively Prehistoric. 331 00:14:09,103 --> 00:14:10,862 Man: ♪ Can You See The Sunrise ♪ 332 00:14:10,862 --> 00:14:12,206 ♪ Goin' Through The Trees ♪ 333 00:14:12,206 --> 00:14:14,482 Gates: I Climb Past Vertical Rain Forests, 334 00:14:14,482 --> 00:14:16,172 Spectacular Lagoons, 335 00:14:16,172 --> 00:14:19,000 And Dodge Some Of The More Than 30 Active Volcanoes Here. 336 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,379 Man: ♪ I Can Hear The Mountains Callin' Me ♪ 337 00:14:23,379 --> 00:14:26,103 Gates: And Then The Road Climbs Into An Ethereal Mist. 338 00:14:26,103 --> 00:14:28,413 These Are Ecuador's Cloud Forests -- 339 00:14:28,413 --> 00:14:30,482 Foggy, High-Altitude Jungles 340 00:14:30,482 --> 00:14:32,310 And Places Of Untold Mystery. 341 00:14:32,310 --> 00:14:33,758 Man: ♪ Callin' Me ♪ 342 00:14:33,758 --> 00:14:35,517 ♪ Yeah ♪ 343 00:14:38,551 --> 00:14:40,551 Gates: Finally, The Vapor Clears, 344 00:14:40,551 --> 00:14:42,379 And I Approach The Archaeological Site 345 00:14:42,379 --> 00:14:43,896 Of Malqui-Machay, 346 00:14:43,896 --> 00:14:46,379 Where I've Arranged To Meet With Researcher, German Molina. 347 00:14:46,379 --> 00:14:50,931 With Him Is His Colleague And Translator, Cale Rodriguez. 348 00:14:50,931 --> 00:14:52,103 -Hola. -Hola. 349 00:14:52,103 --> 00:14:53,103 Hola. ¿Qué Tal? Hi. How Are You? 350 00:14:53,103 --> 00:14:55,310 -Hola. Soycale. -I'm Josh. 351 00:14:55,310 --> 00:14:56,965 Welcome To The Middle Of Nowhere. 352 00:14:56,965 --> 00:14:58,482 I Know. I-I Used The Gps, 353 00:14:58,482 --> 00:15:00,034 And I Sort Of Thought This Must Be Wrong. 354 00:15:00,034 --> 00:15:01,827 So -- So What -- What Is This Place? 355 00:15:01,827 --> 00:15:04,068 Es Un Lugar Inca Ceremonial. 356 00:15:04,068 --> 00:15:06,448 It's A Ceremonial Inca Place. 357 00:15:06,448 --> 00:15:08,862 ♪♪ 358 00:15:08,862 --> 00:15:10,896 The Jungles Swallow Everything. 359 00:15:10,896 --> 00:15:12,482 Little By Little, We Are Realizing 360 00:15:12,482 --> 00:15:14,517 That There Are More Inca Sites In Ecuador 361 00:15:14,517 --> 00:15:16,137 Than We Ever Suspected. 362 00:15:16,137 --> 00:15:17,724 German Believes That The Documents 363 00:15:17,724 --> 00:15:19,310 In Quito Are Correct 364 00:15:19,310 --> 00:15:22,379 And That Atahualpa's Mummy Was Not Only Brought Back To Ecuador 365 00:15:22,379 --> 00:15:25,517 But May Have Been Hidden Here At Malqui-Machay. 366 00:15:25,517 --> 00:15:27,724 ♪♪ 367 00:15:27,724 --> 00:15:29,896 We Walk Even Deeper Into The Jungle. 368 00:15:29,896 --> 00:15:31,517 Here, The Land Looks Much The Same 369 00:15:31,517 --> 00:15:33,896 As It Would Have When The Inca Ruled The Continent 370 00:15:33,896 --> 00:15:36,137 Or When King Kong Battled That T-Rex. 371 00:15:36,137 --> 00:15:38,068 What Do You Think The Weight Rating Is On This Thing? 372 00:15:38,068 --> 00:15:40,379 -Oh, We Are Over It. -[ Laughs ] 373 00:15:40,379 --> 00:15:43,758 Gates: We Cross Rivers And Climb Into The Chilly Hills. 374 00:15:45,448 --> 00:15:48,172 Eventually, Though, Signs Of Inca Civilization 375 00:15:48,172 --> 00:15:50,206 Start To Come Into View. 376 00:15:50,206 --> 00:15:56,241 ♪♪ 377 00:15:56,241 --> 00:16:02,310 ♪♪ 378 00:16:02,310 --> 00:16:04,172 All Of This Is Incan, German? 379 00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:05,310 And This Too, This Road? 380 00:16:05,310 --> 00:16:10,275 [ Speaking Spanish ] 381 00:16:10,275 --> 00:16:13,137 You Can Tell Because The Fact That It's 2 Meters Wide... 382 00:16:13,137 --> 00:16:14,137 Right. 383 00:16:14,137 --> 00:16:15,862 As All The Inca Road In The Whole Empire. 384 00:16:15,862 --> 00:16:17,896 So This Is Inca, 100% 385 00:16:20,137 --> 00:16:23,344 Really Amazing Thing Is That It's In Near-Perfect Condition. 386 00:16:23,344 --> 00:16:25,241 I Mean, You Could -- You Could Drive A Car Up This. 387 00:16:25,241 --> 00:16:27,689 -[ Laughs ] -How Old Is This Construction? 388 00:16:27,689 --> 00:16:29,931 [ Speaks Spanish ] 389 00:16:29,931 --> 00:16:31,241 Around 500 Years. 390 00:16:31,241 --> 00:16:34,103 We Have Roads In New Jersey That Are 50 Years Old 391 00:16:34,103 --> 00:16:35,896 That Look Like They Got Hit With A Missile. 392 00:16:35,896 --> 00:16:39,000 [ Laughs ] If The Inca Didn't Build This For Last, 393 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,586 They Cut Their Heads Off. So... 394 00:16:41,586 --> 00:16:43,413 Yeah, The Union Guys Don't Have That Same Kind Of Pressure. 395 00:16:43,413 --> 00:16:44,793 It's True. And It Continues Up? 396 00:16:44,793 --> 00:16:45,965 Yep. 397 00:16:45,965 --> 00:16:47,896 -Yeah? -Let's Go Up. 398 00:16:47,896 --> 00:16:50,103 Wow. There's A Ton Of Stonework Here. 399 00:16:50,103 --> 00:16:52,000 Look At This, An Aqueduct. 400 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,103 An Incan Aqueduct. 401 00:16:55,103 --> 00:17:03,827 ♪♪ 402 00:17:03,827 --> 00:17:06,448 You've Got Construction Here That's Half A Millennia Old. 403 00:17:06,448 --> 00:17:08,034 It's Still Working Perfectly. 404 00:17:08,034 --> 00:17:10,586 Rodriquez: Water Was Holy. Mother Nature Is Holy. 405 00:17:10,586 --> 00:17:13,793 So It Could Mean That A Very Important Thing Happened Here. 406 00:17:13,793 --> 00:17:18,482 [ Speaks Spanish ] 407 00:17:18,482 --> 00:17:19,827 -There's Other Canals Up There? -Mm-Hmm. 408 00:17:19,827 --> 00:17:21,965 -Can You Show Me? -Yeah. 409 00:17:21,965 --> 00:17:24,965 Gates: The Dense Jungle Growth Has Covered Everything Here, 410 00:17:24,965 --> 00:17:27,758 An Inca Settlement Beautifully Preserved Beneath It. 411 00:17:27,758 --> 00:17:30,172 And If You Move Any Of This Away, You See... 412 00:17:30,172 --> 00:17:31,586 -The Rocks. -The Rocks. 413 00:17:31,586 --> 00:17:33,000 Yeah. 414 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,206 Just Hidden Underneath It Like A Perfect Cobblestone. 415 00:17:35,206 --> 00:17:36,482 Further Up The Hill, Though, 416 00:17:36,482 --> 00:17:38,586 Is A Structure That Indicates To German 417 00:17:38,586 --> 00:17:41,482 That Atahualpa's Mummy May Very Well Have Been Here. 418 00:17:41,482 --> 00:17:44,103 Look At That. 419 00:17:44,103 --> 00:17:45,413 Wow, Big Blocks. 420 00:17:45,413 --> 00:17:48,724 This Structure Here Is Not Part Of The Inca Road. 421 00:17:48,724 --> 00:17:50,379 This Is Other Kind Of Structure. 422 00:17:50,379 --> 00:17:52,965 Look At That. The Tree Is Just Growing Right Out Of It 423 00:17:52,965 --> 00:17:54,275 And All Back Here, Too. 424 00:17:54,275 --> 00:17:55,758 [ Speaks Spanish ] 425 00:17:55,758 --> 00:17:58,689 It's Square-Shaped, Carved Stone, Which Is Imperial. 426 00:17:58,689 --> 00:18:04,172 It Means That We May Find An Imperial Construction Here. 427 00:18:04,172 --> 00:18:06,275 Underneath All The Moss, Underneath All The Grass, 428 00:18:06,275 --> 00:18:09,620 There Could Be Actually A Temple Here Of Some Kind? 429 00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:11,793 This Is Run By Nature Now. 430 00:18:11,793 --> 00:18:15,965 But It Could Be A Whole Complex Here, Undiscovered. 431 00:18:15,965 --> 00:18:18,413 This Is Some Indiana Jones [Bleep] Right Here. 432 00:18:18,413 --> 00:18:21,068 This Is, Like, Undiscovered Country. 433 00:18:21,068 --> 00:18:22,586 ♪♪ 434 00:18:22,586 --> 00:18:24,620 We Step Further Down Into The Ruins 435 00:18:24,620 --> 00:18:27,241 Into An Even More Impressive Discovery. 436 00:18:29,448 --> 00:18:30,965 What Is This? 437 00:18:30,965 --> 00:18:33,965 [ Speaks Spanish ] 438 00:18:33,965 --> 00:18:35,517 This Is The Most Important Building 439 00:18:35,517 --> 00:18:36,689 Of The Whole Complex. 440 00:18:36,689 --> 00:18:38,172 We Believe That This Is The Place 441 00:18:38,172 --> 00:18:41,413 Where Atahualpa's Mummy Was Kept Every Night. 442 00:18:41,413 --> 00:18:42,862 -Right Here? -Yeah. 443 00:18:42,862 --> 00:18:43,931 So The Mummy Of Atahualpa 444 00:18:43,931 --> 00:18:45,758 Literally Could've Been Right Here? 445 00:18:45,758 --> 00:18:47,724 Laying Seated, How Would He Have Been Positioned? 446 00:18:47,724 --> 00:18:49,413 He Would Be In A Seated Position 447 00:18:49,413 --> 00:18:52,482 Like The Inca King Was, Uh, On His Throne. 448 00:18:52,482 --> 00:18:54,517 The Problem, Though, Is That He's Not Here Now. 449 00:18:54,517 --> 00:18:56,413 So, If They Took The Mummy, Where Would They Have Taken It? 450 00:18:56,413 --> 00:18:58,931 The Inca Were Fleeing From The Spaniards. 451 00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:02,586 And Whoever Has The Mummy Possessed The Power Of The Inca. 452 00:19:02,586 --> 00:19:04,275 They Needed To Protect This Mummy. 453 00:19:04,275 --> 00:19:07,724 They Knew How To Get In Higher Land. 454 00:19:07,724 --> 00:19:09,448 Up There? Up There Looks Difficult. 455 00:19:09,448 --> 00:19:10,689 Yeah, That's The Point. 456 00:19:10,689 --> 00:19:12,724 So, If We're Looking For Atahualpa, 457 00:19:12,724 --> 00:19:15,172 That's The Place To Look? -That's The Place. 458 00:19:15,172 --> 00:19:19,517 ♪♪ 459 00:19:23,206 --> 00:19:27,827 ♪♪ 460 00:19:27,827 --> 00:19:29,551 Gates: In The Jungle Highlands Of Ecuador, 461 00:19:29,551 --> 00:19:32,310 I've Been Led To A Remote Ruin That May Have Once Housed 462 00:19:32,310 --> 00:19:36,413 The Reportedly Supernatural Mummy Of The Last Incan King. 463 00:19:36,413 --> 00:19:38,862 But Since Spanish Conquistadors Were On A Quest 464 00:19:38,862 --> 00:19:42,103 To Eradicate His Empire, The Mummy Was Likely Moved. 465 00:19:42,103 --> 00:19:43,655 But To Where? 466 00:19:43,655 --> 00:19:45,206 It Should Then Be Over There. 467 00:19:45,206 --> 00:19:48,862 Up There? Up There Looks Difficult. 468 00:19:48,862 --> 00:19:50,413 We Actually Have Colleagues 469 00:19:50,413 --> 00:19:53,275 That Are Working There In The Highlands In The North. 470 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:55,034 And They Are Looking For Inca Trails 471 00:19:55,034 --> 00:19:58,758 That May Lead To A Complex, A-A Place Like This. 472 00:19:58,758 --> 00:20:01,551 German And Cale Are Part Of A Larger Team. 473 00:20:01,551 --> 00:20:03,517 While We've Been Busy Investigating The Ruins 474 00:20:03,517 --> 00:20:04,896 At Malqui-Machay, 475 00:20:04,896 --> 00:20:07,275 The Rest Of His Group Has Been Exploring Inca Trails 476 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:09,068 In The Jungles To The East. 477 00:20:09,068 --> 00:20:11,275 Their Plan Is To Map This Network Of Roads 478 00:20:11,275 --> 00:20:14,793 And Determine If It Leads To Any Significant Sites. 479 00:20:14,793 --> 00:20:16,517 And Have They Found Anything Yet? 480 00:20:16,517 --> 00:20:18,034 A Farmer Up There In The Highlands 481 00:20:18,034 --> 00:20:19,827 Who Have Found Some Inca Stones. 482 00:20:19,827 --> 00:20:21,482 We Just Don't Know What It Is. 483 00:20:21,482 --> 00:20:23,206 But We Wanna Go There And Take A Look. 484 00:20:23,206 --> 00:20:26,103 -Could Be An Incan Site? -Yeah. 485 00:20:26,103 --> 00:20:29,034 Gates: If This Farmer Has Found Inca Stones In The Same Area 486 00:20:29,034 --> 00:20:31,379 Where Atahualpa's Mummy Was Likely Taken, 487 00:20:31,379 --> 00:20:33,413 Then We Need To Get There Fast. 488 00:20:33,413 --> 00:20:35,241 But With No Proper Roads Ahead, 489 00:20:35,241 --> 00:20:38,482 This Is The End Of The Line For My 4X4. 490 00:20:38,482 --> 00:20:41,413 Lucky For Me, My Companions Thought Ahead. 491 00:20:41,413 --> 00:20:43,758 [ Engines Start ] 492 00:20:43,758 --> 00:20:46,482 [ Engines Revving ] 493 00:20:46,482 --> 00:20:49,137 It Might Seem Weird That We're Trying To Track Down A Farmer. 494 00:20:49,137 --> 00:20:52,068 But, In Fact, People Who Live Up Here 495 00:20:52,068 --> 00:20:54,931 Are Often The Ones Who Find These Ruins First. 496 00:20:54,931 --> 00:20:57,172 I'm Really Intrigued To See What It Is That This Guy Found. 497 00:20:57,172 --> 00:20:58,793 Tree. 498 00:20:58,793 --> 00:21:00,827 ♪♪ 499 00:21:00,827 --> 00:21:02,655 It's Incredible -- The Higher We Go, 500 00:21:02,655 --> 00:21:05,758 We're Literally Getting Into The Clouds. 501 00:21:05,758 --> 00:21:13,206 ♪♪ 502 00:21:13,206 --> 00:21:15,206 Pretty Sure I Have Cow Poop In My Mouth. 503 00:21:15,206 --> 00:21:19,034 Here's An Expert Travel Tip -- Always Pack An Extra Toothbrush. 504 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:25,000 Eventually, We Arrive At The Farm 505 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,586 But Don't Exactly Receive A Warm Welcome. 506 00:21:27,586 --> 00:21:30,344 -Buenos Días. -Buenos Días. 507 00:21:30,344 --> 00:21:31,827 Hola. Buenos Días. 508 00:21:31,827 --> 00:21:33,689 Cameras? No. No Cameras. 509 00:21:33,689 --> 00:21:37,172 All Right, Guys. Camera Down. Camera Down. 510 00:21:37,172 --> 00:21:38,620 [ Lowered Voice ] If He Has Found Something, 511 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:42,034 And It's Archaeological, Artifact Or -- Or A Site, 512 00:21:42,034 --> 00:21:43,965 And The Government Finds Out About That, 513 00:21:43,965 --> 00:21:45,586 You Can Go To Prison For Three Years. 514 00:21:45,586 --> 00:21:47,344 So He May Be Worried About That. 515 00:21:47,344 --> 00:21:49,482 ...Al Diferente Partes. 516 00:21:49,482 --> 00:21:52,379 Hola.It's Possible? Can We Chat With Him Or No? 517 00:21:52,379 --> 00:21:54,758 Cale: Uh, I Think It's Possible. 518 00:21:54,758 --> 00:21:57,068 If He's Comfortable Kind Of Showing Us What He's Found 519 00:21:57,068 --> 00:21:58,862 Or Pointing Us In The Direction Of Where He's Found It, 520 00:21:58,862 --> 00:22:00,620 We Can Keep Him Totally Anonymous. 521 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:01,965 That's Easy. 522 00:22:01,965 --> 00:22:03,310 Gates: Cale And German Manage 523 00:22:03,310 --> 00:22:05,931 To Convince The Farmer To Share What He's Found With Us. 524 00:22:05,931 --> 00:22:08,103 And I Can Hardly Wait To See It. 525 00:22:08,103 --> 00:22:10,000 Oh, My God. 526 00:22:13,275 --> 00:22:14,896 Look At That. [ Laughs ] 527 00:22:14,896 --> 00:22:17,655 Are You Kidding Me? 528 00:22:17,655 --> 00:22:18,931 This Is Beautiful. 529 00:22:18,931 --> 00:22:21,103 Oh, My God. [ Exhales Deeply ] 530 00:22:21,103 --> 00:22:23,724 I Thought That He Was Gonna Have Found 531 00:22:23,724 --> 00:22:26,103 Some Bricks Or Ceramic, Maybe. 532 00:22:26,103 --> 00:22:27,689 This Is Unbelievable. 533 00:22:27,689 --> 00:22:30,103 This Is A Remarkable Find In And Of Itself. 534 00:22:30,103 --> 00:22:32,896 But It Could Also Mark The Way To The Jackpot -- 535 00:22:32,896 --> 00:22:35,103 The Mummy Of Atahualpa. 536 00:22:35,103 --> 00:22:39,034 [ Man Speaking Spanish ] 537 00:22:39,034 --> 00:22:41,517 This Is, Uh, For The Chiefs. 538 00:22:41,517 --> 00:22:42,931 It's Like A -- Like A Chest Plate? 539 00:22:42,931 --> 00:22:44,000 ...Representación Del Sol. 540 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,586 It Is From The People Of The Sun. 541 00:22:45,586 --> 00:22:47,551 From The People Of The Sun? From The Inca? 542 00:22:47,551 --> 00:22:50,068 What Is It Made Of? It Looks Like Copper. 543 00:22:50,068 --> 00:22:51,896 -Tumbaga. Tumbaga. -It's A Material 544 00:22:51,896 --> 00:22:55,000 They Called Tumbaga, Made From Gold And Copper. 545 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,413 -It's A Mix. -And Do You Think 546 00:22:56,413 --> 00:22:58,517 This Is The Right Time Period For Atahualpa? 547 00:22:58,517 --> 00:23:02,379 [ Speaking Spanish ] 548 00:23:02,379 --> 00:23:04,931 It's Amazing. Where Did He Find It Exactly? 549 00:23:04,931 --> 00:23:06,344 [ Speaks Spanish ] 550 00:23:06,344 --> 00:23:10,586 It's A Mountain With A -- Another Mountain On The Top. 551 00:23:10,586 --> 00:23:12,172 It's A Hill Over A Mountain. 552 00:23:12,172 --> 00:23:15,655 It Has A Trail, Like, A Path That Goes Like A Spiral, 553 00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,241 He Says, Like A Snail. 554 00:23:17,241 --> 00:23:18,689 Gates: The Farmer Describes 555 00:23:18,689 --> 00:23:23,172 A Strange, Conical Hill Due East Of His Farm. 556 00:23:23,172 --> 00:23:26,689 But Even The Atvs Aren't Going To Make It There. 557 00:23:26,689 --> 00:23:28,827 ♪♪ 558 00:23:28,827 --> 00:23:30,413 We're Now On Foot. 559 00:23:30,413 --> 00:23:33,655 And, Unfortunately For Us, The Weather Is Taking A Turn. 560 00:23:33,655 --> 00:23:34,862 We Are Literally In A Cloud, 561 00:23:34,862 --> 00:23:37,241 So Maybe Not Surprising That It Is Raining. 562 00:23:37,241 --> 00:23:38,862 Cale: If It Wasn't For The Compass, 563 00:23:38,862 --> 00:23:40,655 We Can Be Easily Lost. 564 00:23:40,655 --> 00:23:41,931 Gates: In A Matter Of Minutes, 565 00:23:41,931 --> 00:23:43,275 The Fog Comes Down Like A Blanket 566 00:23:43,275 --> 00:23:44,758 And Smothers Our Visibility, 567 00:23:44,758 --> 00:23:46,379 Which Is Probably For The Best, 568 00:23:46,379 --> 00:23:48,620 Since It Means That No One Can See Me Panting. 569 00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:50,517 We Are Now Above 12,000 Feet, 570 00:23:50,517 --> 00:23:53,862 So The Air Up Here -- Little Thin. 571 00:23:53,862 --> 00:23:56,724 ♪♪ 572 00:23:56,724 --> 00:23:58,241 Aquí Está. Mira. 573 00:23:58,241 --> 00:24:00,413 [ Speaks Spanish ] 574 00:24:02,827 --> 00:24:04,965 That's It! That Is A Hill And A Hill. 575 00:24:04,965 --> 00:24:07,448 And It Looks Like A -- A Circular Trail. 576 00:24:07,448 --> 00:24:09,310 Yeah. Goes In Spiral. 577 00:24:13,034 --> 00:24:14,896 Gates: We Forge Ahead Toward The Peak 578 00:24:14,896 --> 00:24:16,206 When, Suddenly, The Ground 579 00:24:16,206 --> 00:24:19,103 Seems To Drop Away In Front Of Us. 580 00:24:19,103 --> 00:24:21,517 Whoa. What Is That? 581 00:24:21,517 --> 00:24:23,827 [ Speaking Spanish ] 582 00:24:26,034 --> 00:24:28,379 He Thinks It's An Incan Trail. 583 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:30,517 This Ditch Is The Secret Path 584 00:24:30,517 --> 00:24:33,000 That They Used To Go Up And Down. 585 00:24:34,344 --> 00:24:36,310 Gates: We Descend Into The Strange Gully 586 00:24:36,310 --> 00:24:38,310 And Begin To Follow It Uphill. 587 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,896 ♪♪ 588 00:24:39,896 --> 00:24:42,620 We Push Through Several Overgrown Sections 589 00:24:42,620 --> 00:24:47,448 And Eventually Emerge To A Promising Site. 590 00:24:47,448 --> 00:24:51,103 -Loose Stonework Here. -Yeah. 591 00:24:51,103 --> 00:24:53,310 This Looks Like Construction All In Here. 592 00:24:53,310 --> 00:24:55,965 It's Roughly Cut, But Something Was Here. 593 00:24:55,965 --> 00:24:58,586 ¿German, Qué Es Esto? What Do You Think All This Is? 594 00:24:58,586 --> 00:25:01,000 [ Speaks Spanish ] 595 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,551 ¿Pucara? ¿Qué Es Pucara? 596 00:25:02,551 --> 00:25:05,344 It's An Incan Watchtower. 597 00:25:05,344 --> 00:25:07,655 Gates: Pucaraswere A Kind Of Incan Fort. 598 00:25:07,655 --> 00:25:10,379 They Were Placed In The Hills Within Earshot Of One Another, 599 00:25:10,379 --> 00:25:11,586 Blasting Out A Warning 600 00:25:11,586 --> 00:25:14,413 To Other Watchtowers In The Event Of Danger. 601 00:25:14,413 --> 00:25:18,931 ♪♪ 602 00:25:18,931 --> 00:25:20,758 As A Cold Rain Begins To Fall, 603 00:25:20,758 --> 00:25:23,896 We Break Out Metal Detectors And Scan The Hillside. 604 00:25:23,896 --> 00:25:26,275 If The Farmer's Incan Relic Was Found Here, 605 00:25:26,275 --> 00:25:29,724 Could Atahualpa's Mummy Be Stashed Nearby? 606 00:25:29,724 --> 00:25:31,172 What? Oh, My God! 607 00:25:31,172 --> 00:25:32,275 You Found Something?! 608 00:25:32,275 --> 00:25:33,551 Josh! Come Here! 609 00:25:33,551 --> 00:25:35,551 What Do You Got? 610 00:25:35,551 --> 00:25:38,413 Cale: I Don't Know What It Is! 611 00:25:38,413 --> 00:25:40,034 [Bleep] 612 00:25:40,034 --> 00:25:42,689 Whoa! Watch It! 613 00:25:42,689 --> 00:25:45,103 It's A Big Hole. 614 00:25:45,103 --> 00:25:47,172 -You Found A Hole. -[ Laughs ] 615 00:25:47,172 --> 00:25:49,586 Maybe You Could've Opened With That. 616 00:25:49,586 --> 00:25:51,413 -Are You Okay? -I'd Be A Lot Worse 617 00:25:51,413 --> 00:25:53,103 If I Was Down There. 618 00:25:53,103 --> 00:25:56,344 -How Far Down Does That Go? -I Don't Know. 15 Feet? 619 00:25:56,344 --> 00:26:00,000 [ Exhales Deeply ] Okay. What The Hell Is That? 620 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,965 [ Speaking Spanish ] 621 00:26:01,965 --> 00:26:03,344 German Believes It's A Tomb. 622 00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:06,034 Why Would There Be A Tomb Here At A Fortress, Do You Think? 623 00:26:06,034 --> 00:26:07,689 [ Speaks Spanish ] 624 00:26:07,689 --> 00:26:09,862 Maybe It's A Huge Offering. 625 00:26:09,862 --> 00:26:12,551 [ Speaks Spanish ] 626 00:26:12,551 --> 00:26:14,103 This Was An Important Pucara. 627 00:26:14,103 --> 00:26:16,379 Do You Think It Could've Been The Mummy? 628 00:26:16,379 --> 00:26:17,724 Who Knows? Who Can Say? 629 00:26:17,724 --> 00:26:19,517 Let's See If We Can Get Eyes Down To The Bottom. 630 00:26:19,517 --> 00:26:22,758 ♪♪ 631 00:26:22,758 --> 00:26:24,827 Gates: Though I'm Not Entirely Confident 632 00:26:24,827 --> 00:26:26,655 About The Rigging Of Our Wet Rope, 633 00:26:26,655 --> 00:26:28,655 I Eagerly Descend Into The Pit, 634 00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:31,379 Hopeful To Discover What's Hiding At The Bottom. 635 00:26:31,379 --> 00:26:33,206 [ Panting ] 636 00:26:33,206 --> 00:26:35,793 Okay. I'm Down. 637 00:26:35,793 --> 00:26:37,068 This Has All Been Carved Out, 638 00:26:37,068 --> 00:26:38,655 And Then They Went In A Little Bit. 639 00:26:38,655 --> 00:26:42,448 Loose Debris Down Here. Some Stone, As Well. 640 00:26:42,448 --> 00:26:44,655 Could Someone Run Back And Grab Me That Metal Detector? 641 00:26:44,655 --> 00:26:47,620 Here It Is. 642 00:26:47,620 --> 00:26:49,862 [ Pinging ] 643 00:26:49,862 --> 00:26:51,206 Yeah, I Got A Hit Down Here. 644 00:26:51,206 --> 00:26:53,103 There's Something In This Corner, I Think. 645 00:26:53,103 --> 00:26:55,206 Shovel? Thanks. 646 00:26:55,206 --> 00:26:58,068 I Got A Hit Over Here A Minute Ago. 647 00:26:58,068 --> 00:27:00,793 Just Seein' What It Is. May Be A False Hit. 648 00:27:00,793 --> 00:27:04,517 No, I Got Somethin'! Oh, Man. 649 00:27:04,517 --> 00:27:05,793 Look At This. 650 00:27:11,793 --> 00:27:13,931 ♪♪ 651 00:27:13,931 --> 00:27:16,413 Gates: Deep Inside The Cloud Forests Of Ecuador, 652 00:27:16,413 --> 00:27:18,620 Archaeologist German Molina And I 653 00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:20,275 Discover A Strange, Man-Made Hole 654 00:27:20,275 --> 00:27:22,068 At The Ruins Of An Incan Fort, 655 00:27:22,068 --> 00:27:23,827 Known As A Pucara. 656 00:27:23,827 --> 00:27:25,965 Could This Be The Final Resting Place 657 00:27:25,965 --> 00:27:29,517 Of Their Last Emperor, The Mighty Atahualpa? 658 00:27:29,517 --> 00:27:31,448 No, I Got Somethin'! 659 00:27:31,448 --> 00:27:34,965 -Oh, Man. Look At This. -What Is It? 660 00:27:34,965 --> 00:27:37,103 I Don't Know What It Is. It Looks Very Old. 661 00:27:39,827 --> 00:27:43,482 Oh, My God. Ha! Beautiful. 662 00:27:43,482 --> 00:27:45,275 -Oh, My God. -What Is That? 663 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,689 -[ Speaks Spanish ] -[ Speaks Spanish ] 664 00:27:47,689 --> 00:27:50,103 A Thing They Use To Clip Their Clothes Together. 665 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:51,620 What's It Made Of? 666 00:27:51,620 --> 00:27:53,379 -Tumbaga. Cobre Y Oro. -Copper And Gold. 667 00:27:53,379 --> 00:27:55,689 Copper And Gold. [ Laughs ] 668 00:27:55,689 --> 00:27:57,551 -Unbelievable! -This Is Surreal. 669 00:27:57,551 --> 00:27:59,275 -Whoo! -That's Incredible! 670 00:27:59,275 --> 00:28:01,586 [ Speaks Spanish ] 671 00:28:01,586 --> 00:28:04,034 -Should Be Something More. -Okay. I'll Keep Looking. 672 00:28:05,620 --> 00:28:07,965 Gates: I Spend The Next Soggy Hour Carefully 673 00:28:07,965 --> 00:28:10,034 Exploring The Bottom Of The Pit... 674 00:28:10,034 --> 00:28:12,241 ♪♪ 675 00:28:12,241 --> 00:28:14,758 ...But To No Avail. 676 00:28:14,758 --> 00:28:16,620 Not One Other Hit Down Here. 677 00:28:16,620 --> 00:28:18,931 -Guys, I'm Comin' Back Up. -All Right. 678 00:28:18,931 --> 00:28:21,344 [ Panting ] 679 00:28:21,344 --> 00:28:24,620 -Hey. Awesome, Awesome Job. -[ Laughs ] 680 00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:27,172 Gates: Unearthing A 500-Year-Old Artifact 681 00:28:27,172 --> 00:28:30,517 In The Remnants Of An Incan Fort Is A Major Thrill. 682 00:28:30,517 --> 00:28:33,206 But We're Left With More Questions Than Answers. 683 00:28:33,206 --> 00:28:36,448 Why Was This Watchtower Built In Such A Remote Location? 684 00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:38,551 And What Was It Guarding? 685 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:39,931 We Should Meet With The Rest Of Our Team. 686 00:28:39,931 --> 00:28:42,344 -It's A Few Hours Away. -You Can Find Them From Here? 687 00:28:42,344 --> 00:28:44,655 -We Can Find Them With Gps. -Please. 688 00:28:44,655 --> 00:28:47,034 ♪♪ 689 00:28:47,034 --> 00:28:49,758 Gates: This Entire Area Is Riddled With Incan Trails. 690 00:28:49,758 --> 00:28:51,655 And About 4 Miles From Our Location, 691 00:28:51,655 --> 00:28:53,448 The Rest Of German And Cale's Team 692 00:28:53,448 --> 00:28:57,068 Has Been Busy Mapping Each And Every One. 693 00:28:57,068 --> 00:28:59,379 Now We Just Need To Reach Them. 694 00:28:59,379 --> 00:29:03,413 We Descend To Their Location, And, Soon, The Sun Follows Suit. 695 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,275 Honestly, It's Spooky As Hell Out Here, 696 00:29:09,275 --> 00:29:12,413 Which Is Why, After 4 Hours Of Stumbling Around In The Dark, 697 00:29:12,413 --> 00:29:13,689 I'm More Than A Little Relieved 698 00:29:13,689 --> 00:29:15,517 To Spot Some Light In The Distance. 699 00:29:15,517 --> 00:29:18,896 -I See A Fire. -Here They Are. 700 00:29:18,896 --> 00:29:19,896 Benoit, Diego! 701 00:29:19,896 --> 00:29:22,827 [ Speaking Spanish ] 702 00:29:22,827 --> 00:29:24,965 -I'm Josh. -Benoit. 703 00:29:24,965 --> 00:29:26,620 Nice To Meet You. How Are You? 704 00:29:26,620 --> 00:29:29,724 Gates: Benoit Duverneuil Is A Trailblazer In A New Field -- 705 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:31,344 Aerial Archaeology. 706 00:29:31,344 --> 00:29:33,517 And He's Dedicated His Mastery Over Drones 707 00:29:33,517 --> 00:29:36,137 To Studying The Inca Civilization. 708 00:29:36,137 --> 00:29:39,068 Really Crazy Day. Went To Machay, Started There. 709 00:29:39,068 --> 00:29:41,620 We Have A Lead On A Farmer Who Found... 710 00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:43,137 [ Speaks Native Language ] -Oh, Wow. 711 00:29:43,137 --> 00:29:46,310 Right. So We Went Up From Where The Farmer Had Found This, 712 00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:48,068 And It's A Pucara. 713 00:29:48,068 --> 00:29:50,586 Yeah, An Inca Fortress With This Trench Trail 714 00:29:50,586 --> 00:29:53,379 Going Up To The Summit, Totally Un-Excavated Place. 715 00:30:01,896 --> 00:30:03,517 What We Came Across Today, 716 00:30:03,517 --> 00:30:05,551 How Does That Fit Into Your Mission Here? 717 00:30:09,310 --> 00:30:11,000 Gates: Benoit Has Been Undertaking 718 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,310 Complex Aerial Mapping Of The Region. 719 00:30:13,310 --> 00:30:16,482 And What He's Uncovering Is Unprecedented. 720 00:30:16,482 --> 00:30:19,275 His Drones Have Snapped Countless Terabytes Of Photos, 721 00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:20,551 Which Have Been Stitched Together 722 00:30:20,551 --> 00:30:23,137 To Reveal A Network Of Incan Trails 723 00:30:23,137 --> 00:30:25,068 And Un-Excavated Pucaras, 724 00:30:25,068 --> 00:30:27,965 Incan Watchtowers Arranged In A Perimeter. 725 00:30:27,965 --> 00:30:29,413 Could It Be That They're Protecting 726 00:30:29,413 --> 00:30:33,793 An Undiscovered Sacred Site And The Remains Of Atahualpa? 727 00:30:33,793 --> 00:30:35,206 Do You Buy Into This Idea 728 00:30:35,206 --> 00:30:38,517 That His Mummy Came From Peru Into Ecuador? 729 00:30:52,931 --> 00:30:55,965 So Where Do You Think The Mummy Went? 730 00:31:05,793 --> 00:31:07,758 Gates: Tomorrow, We'll Continue The Hunt. 731 00:31:07,758 --> 00:31:11,862 But, For Tonight, We Need To Rest And Get Warm. 732 00:31:11,862 --> 00:31:14,413 However, These Guys Aren't Serving Hot Cocoa. 733 00:31:14,413 --> 00:31:15,551 [ Sniffs ] Whew. 734 00:31:15,551 --> 00:31:17,793 -Cale, What -- What Is This? -[ Laughs ] 735 00:31:17,793 --> 00:31:19,551 It's Canelazo. It's A Local Liquor 736 00:31:19,551 --> 00:31:23,068 Made With Fruits And Cinnamon And A Lot Of Sugar. 737 00:31:24,827 --> 00:31:26,344 -It's Good For The Altitude? -Yeah. 738 00:31:26,344 --> 00:31:28,206 Because It Kills You? 739 00:31:28,206 --> 00:31:29,344 [ Laughter ] Perfect. Well, Cheers, Boys. 740 00:31:29,344 --> 00:31:30,655 -Cheers. -Bottoms Up. 741 00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:32,034 -Salud. -Cheers. 742 00:31:32,034 --> 00:31:34,482 Here We Go. 743 00:31:34,482 --> 00:31:36,172 -Hold On. That's Great. -[ Laughs ] 744 00:31:36,172 --> 00:31:39,310 It's Like A Warm Margarita. How Strong Is This? 745 00:31:39,310 --> 00:31:40,620 -Very Strong. -I'm Gonna Be So 746 00:31:40,620 --> 00:31:42,896 [Bleep]-Faced In, Like, 10 Minutes. 747 00:31:42,896 --> 00:31:46,620 ♪♪ 748 00:31:46,620 --> 00:31:48,482 [ Horse Whinnies ] 749 00:31:48,482 --> 00:31:50,482 [ Snoring ] 750 00:31:51,965 --> 00:31:54,068 Does Anybody Have Any Aspirin? 751 00:31:56,448 --> 00:31:58,724 [ Exhales Deeply ] 752 00:31:58,724 --> 00:32:01,172 Gates: The Previous Night's Revelry Blurs Away. 753 00:32:01,172 --> 00:32:04,103 And After A Little Housekeeping And About 10 Cups Of Coffee, 754 00:32:04,103 --> 00:32:06,482 We Get Back To Work. 755 00:32:06,482 --> 00:32:08,793 All Right. Let's Do It.[ Horse Whinnies ] 756 00:32:08,793 --> 00:32:10,724 Gates: Llamas Are Packed Up With Supplies, 757 00:32:10,724 --> 00:32:12,241 And We Mount Up On Horseback 758 00:32:12,241 --> 00:32:16,551 To Head Even Higher Into The Hills. 759 00:32:16,551 --> 00:32:19,551 Our Plan Is To Explore Unmapped Incan Trails... 760 00:32:19,551 --> 00:32:22,241 And To Investigate The Area Inside The Perimeter 761 00:32:22,241 --> 00:32:24,689 Of The Ruined Pucarafortresses. 762 00:32:24,689 --> 00:32:26,310 Are We On A Trail Here? 763 00:32:29,241 --> 00:32:32,827 You Think It's Conceivable That The Mummy Followed This Route? 764 00:32:38,931 --> 00:32:41,172 [ Horse Whinnies ] 765 00:32:41,172 --> 00:32:42,655 And Now It's Raining. 766 00:32:42,655 --> 00:32:44,827 That's The Problem With A Wet-Air Cloud Forest -- 767 00:32:44,827 --> 00:32:46,689 Very Unpredictable. 768 00:32:46,689 --> 00:32:48,620 We Keep Passing Through Different Environments 769 00:32:48,620 --> 00:32:50,068 As We Get Up Here To The Clouds. 770 00:32:50,068 --> 00:32:52,827 It's Just Turned Into A Thick Jungle. 771 00:32:52,827 --> 00:32:55,034 The Wall Of Fog Has Gotten The Better 772 00:32:55,034 --> 00:32:56,379 Of My Sense Of Direction. 773 00:32:56,379 --> 00:32:58,103 It's Just Like Being Inside A Cloud Here. 774 00:32:58,103 --> 00:32:59,517 You Can't See Anything. 775 00:32:59,517 --> 00:33:03,206 But It's Not A Problem For Benoit. 776 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,103 Yeah, Let It -- Let It Look Ahead Of Us. 777 00:33:12,103 --> 00:33:13,724 Sounds Like A Good Idea. 778 00:33:13,724 --> 00:33:16,517 Gates: Benoit's Plan Is Both High-Tech And Yet Simple -- 779 00:33:16,517 --> 00:33:17,931 Send Up An Aerial Camera 780 00:33:17,931 --> 00:33:20,517 To Take Photos Of Incan Trails From Above 781 00:33:20,517 --> 00:33:22,758 And Then Use Computers To Stitch The Images 782 00:33:22,758 --> 00:33:25,206 Into A 3-D Road Map Of The Unknown. 783 00:33:25,206 --> 00:33:27,034 Also, We're Basically Lost Out Here, 784 00:33:27,034 --> 00:33:28,275 So, Hopefully, We'll Be Able 785 00:33:28,275 --> 00:33:30,931 To Kill Two Birds With One Drone. 786 00:33:30,931 --> 00:33:34,172 ♪♪ 787 00:33:34,172 --> 00:33:35,931 Up And Away. Here We Go. 788 00:33:37,758 --> 00:33:40,275 So, Heading Uphill. Misty. 789 00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:44,724 Gates: The Drone Peers Down Through The Fog 790 00:33:44,724 --> 00:33:46,379 And Quickly Spots Trails. 791 00:33:46,379 --> 00:33:48,551 -So We've Got Terraces In Here? -Yep. 792 00:33:48,551 --> 00:33:50,586 Gates: And Also Something Else. 793 00:33:50,586 --> 00:33:52,310 Ooh! Right There! Look At That! 794 00:33:52,310 --> 00:33:54,172 What Is That? 795 00:33:55,862 --> 00:33:58,310 I Mean, This Definitely Does Not Look Natural. 796 00:34:06,068 --> 00:34:07,827 Gates: On A Rainy Mountain In Ecuador, 797 00:34:07,827 --> 00:34:11,034 Explorer Benoit Duverneuil Has Sent Up An Aerial Camera 798 00:34:11,034 --> 00:34:12,827 To Get Us A Lay Of The Land. 799 00:34:12,827 --> 00:34:15,241 Through The Thickening Fog, We Spot One Hill 800 00:34:15,241 --> 00:34:17,172 That Looks Strangely Different Than The Rest. 801 00:34:17,172 --> 00:34:18,551 Ooh! Right There! 802 00:34:20,068 --> 00:34:21,310 It's Huge. 803 00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:24,137 I Mean, This Definitely Does Not Look Natural. 804 00:34:24,137 --> 00:34:25,551 It's Weird You Can't See It From Down Here. 805 00:34:25,551 --> 00:34:27,379 It's Blocked By -- By All The Vegetation. 806 00:34:27,379 --> 00:34:28,689 How Far Is That From Us? 807 00:34:32,724 --> 00:34:36,034 Yeah, Let's Check It Out. 808 00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:39,206 [ Whirring ] 809 00:34:41,206 --> 00:34:43,275 Gates: Too Steep And Muddy For The Animals, 810 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:45,517 We Have To Hoof It To The Site Ourselves, 811 00:34:45,517 --> 00:34:47,413 An Undertaking Made All The More Difficult 812 00:34:47,413 --> 00:34:50,000 By The Thin Air And Wet Conditions. 813 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,586 But Soon, We're Standing At The Foot Of The Rise. 814 00:34:53,586 --> 00:34:56,000 Well, There It Is. 815 00:35:01,103 --> 00:35:03,034 It Does Have A Strange Shape. 816 00:35:04,724 --> 00:35:06,413 Yeah, It Looks Like It Flattens Out. 817 00:35:06,413 --> 00:35:08,931 This Hill Is Curious, To Say The Least. 818 00:35:08,931 --> 00:35:11,379 Steep Sections Lead To Flattened Terraces. 819 00:35:11,379 --> 00:35:13,793 Is This Natural Or Something Else? 820 00:35:15,724 --> 00:35:18,448 A Trench. 821 00:35:18,448 --> 00:35:20,551 -It's Like The Other Site, Yeah? -Yeah. 822 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:26,068 I Mean, It's Really Uniform. 823 00:35:26,068 --> 00:35:28,620 Let's See Where It Goes. 824 00:35:28,620 --> 00:35:30,206 Like The Trench We Saw Yesterday, 825 00:35:30,206 --> 00:35:34,379 This Path Wraps Around The Hill Almost All The Way To The Top. 826 00:35:34,379 --> 00:35:36,551 ♪♪ 827 00:35:36,551 --> 00:35:38,275 Another Flat Layer. 828 00:35:40,103 --> 00:35:42,689 It Looks Completely Leveled Off Just Like The One Below It. 829 00:35:42,689 --> 00:35:44,758 It's Almost Like It's Stepping Up. 830 00:35:44,758 --> 00:35:46,620 Where Does It All Lead, Is The Question. 831 00:35:47,827 --> 00:35:50,241 Yeah, For Sure. Let's Keep Looking. 832 00:35:50,241 --> 00:35:59,275 ♪♪ 833 00:35:59,275 --> 00:36:02,206 Look At This. 834 00:36:02,206 --> 00:36:03,551 Whew! That's Breathtaking. 835 00:36:03,551 --> 00:36:06,000 Feels Like The Top Of The World. Look At That. 836 00:36:07,103 --> 00:36:10,206 From The Peak, We Look Down Through A World Of Vapor 837 00:36:10,206 --> 00:36:12,965 To Seemingly Endless Jungles Below. 838 00:36:12,965 --> 00:36:15,827 Incredible. Really Has A 360-Degree View. 839 00:36:15,827 --> 00:36:16,965 Yeah. 840 00:36:19,655 --> 00:36:20,931 Unbelievable. 841 00:36:22,172 --> 00:36:25,068 Clouds Are Starting To Sock Us In On This Back Side. 842 00:36:27,724 --> 00:36:29,586 -Look At That. -Yeah. 843 00:36:29,586 --> 00:36:30,689 Huge Stones. 844 00:36:35,379 --> 00:36:36,931 Right. Let's Get Those Tools, 845 00:36:36,931 --> 00:36:38,965 See If We Can Dig Around A Little Bit 846 00:36:38,965 --> 00:36:40,379 And, Uh, Reveal Anything. 847 00:36:40,379 --> 00:36:42,344 Gates: The Path, The Stones, 848 00:36:42,344 --> 00:36:44,241 The Oddly Shaped Terraces -- 849 00:36:44,241 --> 00:36:46,448 This Hill Appears To Have Been Engineered, 850 00:36:46,448 --> 00:36:49,344 And Exploring The Peak Reveals Even More Mysteries. 851 00:36:49,344 --> 00:36:51,448 -Drop Over Here. -Yeah. 852 00:36:51,448 --> 00:36:53,931 Oh, Look At That! Guys, Come Here! Come Here! 853 00:36:53,931 --> 00:36:56,758 Gates: We've Spotted An Opening In The Ground -- 854 00:36:56,758 --> 00:36:58,965 One That Definitely Doesn't Look Natural. 855 00:36:58,965 --> 00:37:00,482 Oh, My God... 856 00:37:04,034 --> 00:37:06,482 You Think It Could Be Part Of The Trench System? 857 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,551 Well, I'll Grab A Couple Tools And The Metal Detector. 858 00:37:10,551 --> 00:37:12,448 Let's Check It Out. 859 00:37:12,448 --> 00:37:13,862 Gates: While I Gather Some Equipment, 860 00:37:13,862 --> 00:37:16,586 Benoit Wastes No Time And Jumps Down Into The Pit. 861 00:37:16,586 --> 00:37:19,586 -Here You Go. Tool. -Right. 862 00:37:19,586 --> 00:37:21,965 He's Looking To See If There's Any Actual Masonry 863 00:37:21,965 --> 00:37:24,379 Or Whether It's Just A Raw Pit. 864 00:37:24,379 --> 00:37:25,655 Any Stones? 865 00:37:29,137 --> 00:37:30,965 Can You Go Forward At All? 866 00:37:34,551 --> 00:37:36,206 There's No Way We're Gonna Get Further In That 867 00:37:36,206 --> 00:37:37,379 Without Some Serious Equipment 868 00:37:37,379 --> 00:37:39,689 And Some Way To Buttress That Thing. 869 00:37:39,689 --> 00:37:43,310 All Right. Come On. [ Grunts ] 870 00:37:43,310 --> 00:37:45,862 This Is The First Thing That I've Seen That Says To Me, 871 00:37:45,862 --> 00:37:47,517 This Is Not Just A Farming Site. 872 00:37:47,517 --> 00:37:49,862 Something Else Is Going On Here. 873 00:37:49,862 --> 00:37:53,241 Okay. So What Do You Think? Could -- It Could Be A Passage? 874 00:37:57,103 --> 00:37:58,241 Uh-Huh. 875 00:37:59,758 --> 00:38:02,000 So What's Our Move? 876 00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:15,655 Sure. Let's Break It Out. Come On. 877 00:38:15,655 --> 00:38:19,034 Gates: The Inca Sun God Is Clearly Not On Our Side. 878 00:38:19,034 --> 00:38:21,137 Above Us Is A Ceiling Of Concrete, 879 00:38:21,137 --> 00:38:24,344 And Heavier Rain And Darkness Are Moving In Fast. 880 00:38:24,344 --> 00:38:27,965 Hopefully, The Camera Can Cut Through The Fog In Time. 881 00:38:27,965 --> 00:38:29,448 You Ready? 882 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,689 Gates: Beneath Our Feet Is A Massive Mystery -- 883 00:38:33,689 --> 00:38:35,862 One That's About To Be Solved. 884 00:38:35,862 --> 00:38:39,137 ♪♪ 885 00:38:46,068 --> 00:38:47,793 Want Even More "Expedition Unknown"? 886 00:38:47,793 --> 00:38:49,620 You Can Dig Deeper Into Each Expedition 887 00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:52,034 With Behind-The-Scenes Photos, Deleted Scenes, And More 888 00:38:52,034 --> 00:38:54,034 At Travelchannel.Com 889 00:38:54,034 --> 00:38:56,965 ♪♪ 890 00:38:56,965 --> 00:38:59,103 Gates: We're Racing Against Daylight And Weather 891 00:38:59,103 --> 00:39:01,724 To Scan A Massive Hill Beneath Our Feet 892 00:39:01,724 --> 00:39:04,034 That Might Be An Important Incan Site. 893 00:39:04,034 --> 00:39:06,689 To Find Out, Benoit Unleashes A Drone, 894 00:39:06,689 --> 00:39:09,793 Connected To State-Of-The-Art Mapping Software. 895 00:39:09,793 --> 00:39:11,482 Walk Me Through This. How Does This Work? 896 00:39:14,103 --> 00:39:16,586 Okay, Wow.[ Camera Shutter Clicking ] 897 00:39:20,724 --> 00:39:22,517 [ Camera Shutter Clicking ] 898 00:39:25,551 --> 00:39:26,896 Look At That. 899 00:39:26,896 --> 00:39:29,310 ♪♪ 900 00:39:29,310 --> 00:39:32,413 Oh, My God. Look At It. You Can See The Whole Thing. 901 00:39:32,413 --> 00:39:34,103 -Yep. -It's Enormous. 902 00:39:34,103 --> 00:39:36,034 I Mean, You Can Clearly See The Shape Of It. 903 00:39:36,034 --> 00:39:38,172 There's Symmetry. There's Terraces. 904 00:39:38,172 --> 00:39:41,448 You Can See How It Steps Up. It's Definitely Man-Made. 905 00:39:41,448 --> 00:39:43,379 Gates: The Drone Struggles In The Rain 906 00:39:43,379 --> 00:39:45,724 But Still Manages To Snap Thousands Of Photos... 907 00:39:45,724 --> 00:39:48,862 Which Are Digitally Woven Together Into A 3-D Image 908 00:39:48,862 --> 00:39:50,862 That Renders In Real-Time. 909 00:39:50,862 --> 00:39:53,206 It Is A Structure. 910 00:39:53,206 --> 00:39:55,689 It's So Big, It Looks Like A Temple. 911 00:40:04,793 --> 00:40:06,896 And So In Terms Of Atahualpa, 912 00:40:06,896 --> 00:40:08,862 In Terms Of The Mummy, You Think It's Possible 913 00:40:08,862 --> 00:40:11,206 That It Could've Come Here? 914 00:40:26,724 --> 00:40:28,793 If The Mummy Was Brought Here, It Could've Been Removed. 915 00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:30,689 Or Who Knows? It Could Be Interred Here 916 00:40:30,689 --> 00:40:33,241 Or At One Of The Other Sites. 917 00:40:42,758 --> 00:40:44,448 Right. It's -- It's Incredible. 918 00:40:44,448 --> 00:40:46,620 Thank You, Guys, So Much. Benoit. 919 00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:49,551 -Thank You, Josh. Good Job. -Thank You Very Much. 920 00:40:49,551 --> 00:40:51,655 Gates: The Puzzle Pieces To The Location 921 00:40:51,655 --> 00:40:55,310 Of Atahualpa's Mummy Are Falling Into Place. 922 00:40:55,310 --> 00:40:58,827 Faded Documents Reveal It Was Brought To Ecuador 923 00:40:58,827 --> 00:41:02,379 Where There Are Ceremonial Sites Fit For An Incan King 924 00:41:02,379 --> 00:41:06,068 And Imperial Treasures Recovered Far From Civilization. 925 00:41:06,068 --> 00:41:09,000 In This Untouched Wilderness Are Overgrown Trails 926 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,034 Leading To Long-Abandoned Incan Ruins. 927 00:41:12,034 --> 00:41:14,448 These Battlements Must Have Guarded Something 928 00:41:14,448 --> 00:41:17,448 And Seem To Encircle Our Final Destination, 929 00:41:17,448 --> 00:41:20,862 A Massive Hill That Eagle-Eye Technology Has Revealed 930 00:41:20,862 --> 00:41:24,655 Is Actually A Towering, Undiscovered Incan Fortress. 931 00:41:24,655 --> 00:41:27,103 The Next Step Is To Peel Back The Vegetation 932 00:41:27,103 --> 00:41:29,413 And Explore What's Underneath. 933 00:41:29,413 --> 00:41:34,103 Until Then, Atahualpa Will Keep Us Frantically Searching, 934 00:41:34,103 --> 00:41:36,586 Proving That He Still Retains Power 935 00:41:36,586 --> 00:41:39,586 Nearly 500 Years After His Death.