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Title:

Ghosts of Machu Picchu / a production of Nova and National Geographic Television ; produced by Owen Palmquist and Ricardo Preve.

Publisher:

PBS Distribution

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Incas.--Antiquities.
Incas.--History.
Machu Picchu Site (Peru.)

Other Authors:

Palmquist, Owen.
Preve, Ricardo.
Sechler, Craig.
National Geographic Television & Film.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
WGBH Video (Firm).
PBS Distribution (Firm).

Other Titles:

Nova (Television program.)

Notes:

Videodisc release of the 2010 documentary. "A National Geographic special"--Opening screens. Narrator, Craig Sechler.

Contents:

Lost city -- Patallacta skulls -- Royal architecture -- Remarkable engineering -- Location, location, location -- A site left untouched.

Summary:

"In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this Lost city of the Incas, yet it remains an enigma. NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site"--Container.

ISBN:

160883185X : :
9781608831852 : :

UPC:

841887011884

Locations:

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)