Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte Versunkene Metropolen, Part 3 - Tatort Tucumene: Pyramidenstadt in Peru (1994– ) watch online HD

The discovery, exploration and especially history of the Lambayeque culture, which succeeded to the Moche in and the around the valley bearing their people's name in northern Peru. Untill the Inca empire reduced them to a province, and its governor took his place on the highest, the 26 adobe pyramids of the dynasty's first capital Tucume -a larger cluster then any of the Pharanoic or Mayan capitals, in total they erected 250- were the seat of their priest-king and his high nobles, testimony to their power and the widely trading nation's wealth, which lasted until the advance of the Conquistadores caused them, in vain, to bring the supposedly unprecedentedly displeased gods a massive mass-sacrifice of men, women and children who willingly bend over to have their throats slid fast and fatally before the great fire which ended the use of the site.