About The Search For Machu Picchu & Thomas Beale's Mysterious Treasure
In 1911, Yale professor Hiram Bingham hears tales of two lost Incan strongholds deep in the Andes and leads an expedition determined to find them in the unexplored peaks of the Andes range. Brothers Clayton and George Hart try to crack the ciphers left by Beale that allegedly hide the location of hidden treasure. According to legend, he was Britain's greatest king. His name was King Arthur. In the 1960's a team of archaeologists, led by the outstanding excavator of his day, Leslie Alcock, set out to prove the myth was real. In the early nineteenth century, stories emerged of mysterious ruins that lay buried and forgotten, deep inside the jungles of Central America.
The Search For Machu Picchu & Thomas Beale's Mysterious Treasure is presented by Real History. Its listed runtime is 200 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
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- Title
- The Search For Machu Picchu & Thomas Beale's Mysterious Treasure
- Category
- Society
- Runtime
- 200 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Real History
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