Myth Hunters
Season 3 Episode 11 - The Search For Machu Picchu
In 1911, Hiram Bingham was a young scholar specialising in modern Latin American history at Yale University. He was 36-years-old, married to Alfreda Mitchell, an heiress to the Tiffany diamond empire, they had six children and lived in a thirty-roomed mansion on top of a hill. Bingham was a man who seemed to have all the comforts of life, but he was restless and driven. During a field trip to Peru in 1909, he was invited by his guide to see an ancient Inca site high up in the Andes Mountains. This set him on a path that would change his life forever. Bingham learned how in the sixteenth century, the great Inca Empire fled from the ferocious onslaught of Spanish Conquistadors and built a last stronghold deep inside the Amazon jungle. A place they named Vilcabamba. There, they made their final stand against their ruthless enemy, but with their death, the memory of where this last refuge was, disappeared.
Episodes in Season 3
The Man Who Found The Maya
49 min
The Mystery of Thomas Beale's Treasure
49 min
The Search For Nazi Gold
49 min
The Priest, His Lover And The Holy Grail
49 min
The Lost Ship of the Mojave Desert
49 min
The Chalice Of Valencia
49 min
The Pirate Treasure Of Cocos Island
49 min
The Quest For Camelot
49 min
Yamashita’s Gold
49 min
The Curse Of Treasure Mountain
49 min
The Search For Machu Picchu
49 min
The Veil Of Veronica
49 min
The Mystery Of The Spider Rocks
49 min
