Showing posts with label Great Inca Rebellion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Inca Rebellion. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Great Inca Rebellion (PBS documentary)

Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this film presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archaeological discovery begins in a cemetery crammed with skeletons that offer tantalizing clues about a fierce 16th-century battle between warriors of the collapsing Inca Empire and Spanish invaders. Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca - achieved with guns, steel, and horses - is being replaced by a more complete story based on surprising new evidence, including what may be the first gunshot wound in the Americas.



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