Wissenschaftler haben eine unberührte Zivilisation auf einem Berg im Amazonasdschungel gefunden!

Imagine how an untouched civilization lived for almost 100 years a wonderful life, shunned from the outside world. Then it was over with the paradisiacal conditions and the inhabitants had to leave the city suddenly. Let us now reveal the secret of what an unusual place this is. On the search for the history of mankind. Have you ever thought that archaeologists all over the world are constantly working on to decrypt the past of human civilization? Scientists are looking for answers to questions such as how earlier cultures lived, how people gradually developed and what achievements they brought about. In doing so, amazing things and regular miracles keep emerging. High on a mountain in the Andes, researchers found an impossible city. Machu Picchu is located at an altitude of over 2,400 meters and has long been forgotten. The city itself is located far above the tree line, but the dense jungle in deeper layers had perfectly shielded the area high up in the Andes for hundreds of years. When Professor Hiram Bingham discovered the city from Yale University in 1911, he was certainly the first white and probably the first person to set foot on the stairs of the city of gods for 400 years. The construction of this legendary city is attributed to the great Inca ruler Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, who ruled from 1438 to 1471. Most likely, the city was not an ordinary settlement above the clouds. Machu Picchu was much more likely a single magnificent royal estate that was reserved only for the ruler himself and the highest members of the nobility and the priests. The Incas hardly left any records, so we know very little about the true nature and the true purpose of the ancient city. Scientists would love to know how the Incas managed to build a magnificent city like this at an altitude where many settlers were already gasping for breath. All that remained to the researchers were investigations with the help of radiocarbon dating and excavations on site. Imagine how people in the 16th century dragged stones to these high terraces without electricity, carts and aids. Only the best builders of the Incas were on duty here and precisely built these magnificent stone structures. Machu Picchu was to be cut off from the rest of the world and the inhabitants of the world to be lifted up. The Inca elite wanted to be very close to their gods here. Today, however, not only the heritage of the Inca culture makes this city a legend, the second wonder of Machu Picchu is the way it was built. The Incas built a city here directly on a seismically active mountain without mortar. Finest broken lines run directly under the earth's surface, which are constantly slightly shifted by movements of the area and the mountain. The Incas must have known about these movements, because they did not use mortar and instead built structures made of narrow stone to stone. Even a light earthquake would have broken the mortar, but the stones, which were so perfectly cut that there was less than 0.02 cm of space between them, still form stable structures that have survived several centuries and earthquakes in the region without effort. The destruction of the dream of the gods. It is assumed that the luck of the rulers who resided here lasted less than a century. It is assumed that the inhabitants of Machu Picchu lived in peace on the mountain for around 80 years, until worrying news from the lower Inca centers prompted them to leave the mountain. A fatal mistake, as it turned out. In 1532 the Spanish conquistadors invaded Peru and on their zealous search for gold they destroyed large parts of the Inca Empire. The old Inca Empire did not have weapons and military tactics that could oppose the Spanish troops. For centuries no one had questioned the rule of these peoples. The few guards and soldiers were equipped with primitive weapons made of stone, wood, copper and bronze. They had nothing to oppose the steel blade of the Spaniards and the armaments. The inhabitants of Machu Picchu were probably fleeing out of fear. The city had hardly any defense waves and offered no security. After the fall of the Inca Empire, many of the large cities were destroyed. The Spanish conquistadors knew no mercy and many of the fortifications that were built by the Incas were in rubble and ash. The Spaniards attacked with all their might, killed thousands of people, including numerous women, children and even the rulers. Those who were not destroyed by the murderous Spaniards died as a result of diseases such as the flu and measles. Only Machu Picchu was spared. Due to its height, no Spaniard has ever set foot in the city. Probably, even the diseases would not have made it to the top of the mountain. So Machu Picchu remains to us as a unique documentation of the life of one of the most unusual peoples of this earth. The life in Machu Picchu. Fortunately, at least this city was preserved and today we can take a picture of the extraordinary life of these people. Imagine how it used to be here. Noble Inca nobles, some servants, farmers who provided food and the priests shared this city together, which was certainly one of the most magnificent and, above all, the most unusual in the world. Machu Picchu is still a wonder of the world and is called one breath away with the most beautiful buildings in world history. The best thing is that this city has remained almost unchanged. Even if we do not have any records, experts in the cultures of antiquity can almost perfectly record the life in this city. The city was divided into two main areas. The urban-shaped upper city area, which housed palaces, temples and residential quarters, and the lower city area, which was dedicated to the agricultural sector. The architecture of the entire city was perfectly adapted to the shape of the mountain. Architects of the 21st century can only be amazed at what achievements the Inca builders were able to achieve. More than 200 buildings stood on the mountain, arranged in a completely parallel terrace system. The terraces and levels of the city were connected by skillfully carved stone stairs into the mountain. Every street, every alley and every house could be reached via such slanted paths without the residents having to leave the protective walls of the upper city. In the eastern part were the residential quarters of ordinary people, the workers, servants and low-ranking officials, while in the west were the temples and stone structures for sacrificial rituals and ceremonies. The west housed the Torrion, a massive tower that the old Incas used as an observatory to study the stars and the surrounding forest areas. Although only the elite was desired in this perfectly constructed city on the mountain, the city was inhabited by around 750 people, including all servants and workers. Reconstructions of everyday life show how the ruler, who was like a sun god, was admired and staged all day long. The priesthood did everything to protect the ruler from harm and to satisfy the gods. While the upper city served the cult and the worship of the rulers, the best farmers of the culture worked in the lower city to earn this high potato and corn. Agriculture at an altitude of 2,400 meters. Agriculture was carried out in Machu Picchu on hundreds of self-made terraces. Each single terrace was artificially laid along the side of the mountain and filled with fertile soil. The terraces are still an impressive engineering achievement. They have a skillful drainage system and were laid in such a way that they protected the mountain from earthquakes and erosion. In view of the steep slope of the terraces, both the construction and the irrigation were a great challenge. During the rainy season, heavy amounts of water fall in this area of the Andes. Without the irrigation systems, the terraces would simply have been washed away. Instead, the water flowed slowly through the fields and finally down the mountain. Excavations showed that the Incas did not only live on potatoes and corn. Fruits were constantly brought up from deeper layers. Lamas and alpacas came from other parts of the Inca Empire. The relics of graves and ceremonial cities indicated that these animals not only served as food and wool suppliers, but were also used for burial rituals and other religious practices. Sun cults and bloody rituals. Urban life in Machu Picchu was supposed to function similarly to other parts of the Inca Empire, where there was no money and goods and services were exchanged. The taxes were paid by ordinary people in the form of work obligations. For this purpose, the Inca rulers offered their subordinates benefits such as rich access to food, land and other goods. At certain occasions, there were large feasts, where the rulers gathered their subordinates for feasts and ceremonial events. The biggest events were worships of God and sacrifice ceremonies, which seem very bizarre to us today, where it was almost always bloody and people and animals were brutally killed. In Machu Picchu, it was full of centuries-old monuments and temples. The Inti Vatana stone was one of many ritual stones in the ancient Inca Empire and pointed directly to the sun during the winter solstice. The Incas believed that this stone had the power to keep the sun in place during the solstice, because it stood almost directly above the stone and did not cast a shadow on any place. At certain times, sacrifices were made to the stone. In addition to material goods, the Incas had a fable for blood sacrifices. Another structure that served the peculiar features of this people was the Intima Chai, a special cave that was used at the celebration of the royal solstice. During this celebration, young men who had just reached adulthood were drilled through in a ritual act and later brought into the cave. There, their dead bodies or souls were supposed to observe the sunrise and with their sacrifice worship the bizarre sun god of the Incas. The cave was designed in such a way that only during the summer solstice light could penetrate in December and then fell on the sacrificed young men. A detailed examination of the skeletal remains found in and around the city shows that most of the inhabitants of the city were immigrants from different parts of the continent. Presumably, the people came to the city as workers, slaves or farmers. Machu Picchu must have been a legend already in the Inca Empire and genetic differences show a colorful population from all parts of the Inca Empire. The most human remains found here show far fewer bone fractures and arthritis than all other skeletons from the Inca Empire. Presumably, the people in this cave really had a preferred life and even the workers and farmers did easier jobs than anywhere else in the empire. To this day, people are fascinated by this place and more than one million people from all over the world come here every year to see the once magnificent city of the Incas. Speaking of seeing, if you want us to see each other again, click on subscribe now, because you won't miss any new videos.