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  • 1. BUY KIM MACQUARRIE'S LATEST BOOK, "THE LAST DAYS OF THE INCAS"
  • 2. An interview w/Kim MacQuarrie (Geographic Expeditions' Recce Magazine)
  • 3. Interview w/Kim MacQuarrie (Luxury Latin American Travel)
  • 3a. "Peru's Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve": A book I did with the great natural history photographer Andre Bärtschi
  • 4. "Where the Andes Meet the Amazon": Another book I did with Andre Bärtschi on Peru's Bahuaja-Sonene (Tambopata) and Bolivia's Madidi National Parks
  • 5. "Where the Andes Meet the Amazon": Cover Photo
  • 6. "Spirits of the Rainforest"--My first Emmy-winning feature doc on Peru for the Discovery Channel. Watch it here.
  • 7. "The Living Edens: Manu"--Another Emmy-winning film I made on Manu National Park, in Peru. Watch it here.
  • 8. "The Living Edens: Kamchatka"--An Emmy-award-winning film I made on Kamchatka in Russia. Watch it here.
  • 9. "30 Days"--A recent television series I worked on with Morgan "Supersize Me" Spurlock. Watch it here.
  • 9a. A collection of some of my films
  • 9b. An extract from my journal about a trip over the Fitzcarrald Pass into Manu National Park, Peru

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(Above: Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years)
Incas fattened up their children before sacrifice on the volcano
The Times
October 2, 2007
Grim evidence of how the Incas “fattened up” children before sacrificing them to their gods has emerged from a new analysis of hair […]

(Above: The 15-year-old “Llullaillaco Maiden” was sacrificed along with two other children on top of Mt. Llullaillco, in northern Argentina, at 22,000 feet)
In Argentina, A Museum Unveils A Long-Frozen Maiden
September 11, 2007
NYT
SALTA, Argentina — The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop […]

(Above: The Inca ruins of Sacsayhuaman (also Saqsaywaman) lie just above the city of Cuzco, Peru, at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet)
Ancient Temple Discovered Among Inca Ruins
National Geographic News

March 31, 2008
A temple thought to have once housed idols and mummies has been unearthed near an ancient Inca site in Cusco, Peru…

An Antiquities Gallery within the Ethnological Museum of Berlin
SOMOS
(El Comercio)
July 12, 2008
By Dr. Federico Camino Macedo
(Translated by Kim MacQuarrie)
The article in SOMOS 1125 [June 28, 2008, in El Comercio] referred to José Macedo as an ignorant criminal who colluded with the German August R Berns in the sacking, looting, and commercialization of the treasures […]

An Interview With Paolo Greer
Part 1
Note: Recently, a number of stories have emerged in the press alleging that a German adventurer and businessman, Augusto R. Berns, discovered and/or looted Machu Picchu decades before Hiram Bingham arrived at the now famous Inca site in 1911. The stories, for the most part, owe their origin to a […]

(Above: Herman Göhring’s 1874 map of the Cuzco area depicted the twin peaks of “Macchu-Picchu” and “Huainu-Picchu,” but indicated no ruins; map published by Daniel Buck in The South American Explorer in January, 1993)

Fights of Machu Picchu (Part 3)
By Daniel Buck
Maps
The earliest cartographical reference to Machu Picchu, as either a peak or […]

Fights of Machu Picchu
By Daniel Buck
Part 2
Dr. Kessler continued his research at the McNairn family library in England, however, and in March 1983 he wrote to Carolyn Anderson, the National Geographic’s resident authority on Machu-Picchu-Discovery claims, to report his startling conclusion that his father-in-law had been mistaken…

(Above: A view of the Machu Picchu ruins (center left) and Vilcanota/Urubamba River by Hiram Bingham in 1912)
Note: Recent press reports have circled the globe claiming that a German, Augusto R. Berns, discovered and looted Machu Picchu long before the American, Hiram Bingham, “discovered” them in 1911. In an upcoming interview, the American explorer/researcher, Paolo […]