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Secret of the Incas is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Charlton Heston as adventurer Harry Steele, on the trail of an ancient Incan artifact. The supporting cast features Robert Young , Nicole Maurey and Thomas Mitchell , as well as a rare film appearance by Peruvian singer Yma Sumac .
The 2012 film Tad, The Lost Explorer is an animated adventure with characters who travel to Peru in search of Paititi. The 2018 video game Shadow of the Tomb Raider features Paititi as a key locale hosting artifacts hunted by Lara Croft .
He would go on to write 3 more books; Legado de los Amautas, La escritura de los Incas: une introducción a la clave de la escritura secreta de los Incas, and El mundo de los amautas. In 1990 CONCYTEC (the Peruvian National Council of Science and Technology) published all of Burns' works. He died in Lima, Peru, on 24 February 2014.
Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Sacred Valley of the Incas (Spanish: Valle Sagrado de los Incas; Quechua: Willka Qhichwa), or the Urubamba Valley, is a valley in the Andes of Peru, north of the Inca capital of Cusco. It is located in the present-day Peruvian region of Cusco. In colonial documents it was referred to as the "Valley of Yucay".
E. B. White's Charlotte's Web was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal the year Secret of the Andes won the award. [4] According to a 2008 article by children's literature expert Anita Silvey in the School Library Journal, one member of the Newbery committee stated that she voted for Secret of the Andes rather than Charlotte's Web "because she hadn't seen any good books about South America."
The other astonishing thing about Secret of the Incas is its phenomenal entertainment value, what with the Macchu Picchu locale, fantastic acting (Heston, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Young), and the dialogue for the amazing larger-than-life Harry Steele characterization. Jump Forward Immediately 18:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Inca mythology of the Inca Empire was based on pre-Inca beliefs that can be found in the Huarochirí Manuscript, and in pre-Inca cultures including Chavín, Paracas, Moche, and the Nazca culture. The mythology informed and supported Inca religion. [1] One of the most important figures in pre-Inca Andean beliefs was the creator deity Viracocha.
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