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The Screening Room / Lost Worlds & Ancient Mysteries

Machu Picchu: The Secrets of the Inca Builders

42 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Machu Picchu: The Secrets of the Inca Builders]

How the Inca built a city on a mountain ridge, with stonework so precise you can’t slide a knife between the blocks.

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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