Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost World (2003 TV Movie) User Reviews

Amazing Mummies

[gaunitz2000 · 7/10 · 14 June 2006]

Amazing preserved mummies, lost cities, and incredible mountaintop discovery offer startling, new revelations about the glorious rise--and cataclysmic fall--of the extraordinary Inca civilization. Join archaeologists racing to rescue priceless Inca relics from looters and urban sprawl. Follow Inca researcher Peter Frost on an expedition to Vilcabamba--the last refuge of Incas feeling the ruthless conquistadors. Be there for the unwrapping of the perfectly intact "mummy bundles" unearthed beneath a modern-day schoolyard. From new insights into ancient sacrificial rituals, to modern-day attempts to preserve the soul of this once mighty empire, it's a fascinating glimpse into a magnificent, vanished culture in INCA MUMMIES: SECRETS OF A LOST EMPIRE.

Highly demagogic and non-rigorous

[andreuthegiant · 4/10 · 19 September 2010]

This film presents some naive reflexions about very complex social and economical issues, such as the grave robbers ("huaqueros" in Perú) and the current situation of indigenous people in poor regions. The film also shows a completely non-academical and biased, partial opinion about the Spanish conquerors and the conquest process, posing the matter as a good-guys (Incas) versus bad-guys (Spaniards, named as "perverted" and "evil") war, from a total out-of- context (temporal, cultural and religious) point of view. The writer seems to be a non-specialist (her other films are about diamonds, chimpanzees, cats, and frogs). The funniest aspect: she shows the Spanish conqueror as an evil psychopathic Don-Quixote.

There are other better and more rigorous National Geographic films about Incas to watch. The good part: the photography and the real-life images of native people.