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As the scenic view in the picture spreads,
I feel like I've flown in a time machine to the old Incan Empire.
Why did they make a self-sufficient city
that has farming and residential areas on a mountain 2,400 m high?
Also known as a city in the sky for it was not seen from below the mountain.
It's unbelievable even as I witness it
that such a city can be built on the top of a mountain.
Machu Picchu came to the world's attention
when an American archaeologist, Hiram Bingham, discovered it.
The mysterious city was found when a farmer informed of it.
A hideout from conquistadors or a military city for revenge?
Among many theories, no one knows which is the truth.
We believe it was one religious and spiritual place for them
where they had rituals and ceremonies. The Incas had to come.
According to the history, they had to carry the Incan King.
In a golden seat, they had to carry him from Cusco for about ten days.
The traces of sun god worship can be found here and there in the city.
On December 22, the sun comes from the sun gate.
When the sun rises through the sun gate on December 22,
the sunlight pours precisely through the window of this temple.
By observing the angle of the sunlight entering the temple's window,
they knew the dry and rainy seasons.
The sun was the driving force of the agrarian society.
Beside the residential area, the terraced rice fields extend wide.
And the most important thing in farming is water.
The watersays still remain to show how well-designed the city had been.
The Spaniards ruined the Incan Empire 475 years ago, in 1536.
In this city where the time has stopped, the water has run for over 500 years.
The residential area still retains over 200 buildings.
It is assumed that these buildings had sharp, triangular roofs.
Despite numerous earthquakes, the walls of the temple remain strong.
You can feel the endless time by touching them.
It's amazing. It's incredible.
A centipede is trying to get inside the wall,
but the stones are closed so tight, and it seems lost.
The Incan stone building techniques are still a mystery.
How much workforce did it require?
How could they make it so sturdy and delicate?
Questions go on.
They smoothened the stones perhaps using the sand from river, animal fats
and one special kind of rock.
The secret rock, with which the Incas used for polishing, was hematite.
It's 75% natural iron. That's why it's heavy.
Even with a secret rock, it's the human hand that used it.
To frame these rocks so tight and delicate,
it would have required a lifetime of training.