Recent discoveries by archaeologists and researchers have shed new light on the Incas, shaking up our presumptions of this fascinating pre-Colombian civilisation.
Direction
Marchand turns dirt and pottery into genuine suspense.
Writing
Narration that actually respects your intelligence. Shocking!
Director
Thibaud Marchand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Thibaud Marchand spent 18 months in Peruvian archives that had never been filmed before. Some documents were literally crumbling as cameras rolled.
The quipu knot system decoded by Hyland was once dismissed as 'primitive accounting'—this film argues it was sophisticated written language, which would make the Incas one of only about six independently literate civilizations globally. Colonial academia is sweating.
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