History of Machu Picchu (Peru) Since its Found
It turned out that the relics of the past in the form of a city not only can be found in the history of Chichen Itza (Mexico) only. In the other hemisphere, precisely in Peru there is a city of advanced civilization. This unique building is named Machu Pichu. At first glance our memories go back to a cartoon called Pikachu. But it turns out Machu Pichu away from the funny and colorful words. As with other ancient buildings that survive today, the history of Machu Pichu keeps the story interesting.
The Peruvian or Quechua language defines Machu Pichu as the Old Peak. This is closely related to the location of Machu Pichu that occupied the mountains. The height of this building measured from sea level is 2,340 masl. High enough is not it? So not everyone has the ability to visit the ancient sites of the Inca's heritage.
Precisely on July 7, 2007 there are about 100 million people on earth choose Machu Picchu as a worthy tourist spots categorized 7 wonders of the world. The huge support that was sent through the short message service (SMS) and the internet resulted in a decision set by the Swiss Foundation that Machu Pichu deserved to be in that position.
The Invention Process
The first discovery was made by an archaeologist from Yale University, United States of America. The ancient site archaeologist's name is Hiram Bingham who invented Machu Pichu in 1911 AD. Means is still a new site compared to the discovery of the history of the Egyptian pyramids, the history of the Taj Mahal as well as the history of the sanctuary.
Its founder, Bingham discovered this inherit by accident. Starting from his college assignment that took him to do scientific expeditions in the Andes mountains. Bingham's original intention was to explore and study the wild vegetation there. Yet God predestined him as an intermediary to open the eyes of the world to the greatness of a past civilization.
Bingham brought a tour guide who first mastered the ins and outs of the Andes. They together explore parts of the Andean mountains that are still strange. Because the forest is thick, then the hands must come to play part every wild weeds and bushes.
Coincidentally Bingham's eyes stared at an ancient building. At that time the magnificent building is still very faint because it covered many trees and tall grass. Of course Bingham with his guide does not directly believe their normal eyes. As if everything is a frightening and amazing mystical experience. But it turns out that he saw a real building, not just imagination with a tour guide.
With capitalize the belief in the meaning of buildings and their effects on human civilization, Bingham increasingly curious. He was so convinced that the building he saw was a clue to reveal the greatness of the Incas civilization on earth. Much research was then carried out by the relevant parties in the Machu Picchu area. The news of expensive artifacts, beautiful scenes and other ancient clues quickly spread throughout America and the world.
The Building Theory of Machu Picchu
Archaeological site is a former building owned by the Incas in the period before Columbus discovered the American continent. The exact location is in the ruins of the Urumbamba valley, Peru. A place 70 km northwest of Cusco is a gold-coated city. The founder of this magnificent city is the same person as the founder of the kingdom of Inka who was left in 1440 AD.
Pachacutec Yupanqui was the first king in the kingdom of Inka. He founded Machu Pichu as a symbol of their eternal devotion and community in the thick of the Amazon jungle and upstream of the Urubamba river. Keep in mind that the Amazon forest is one of the greenest forests in the world that contribute a lot of oxygen supply to the American region as well as the world. Many rare animals and flora that occupy the green forest.
Newly discovered, it soon emerged that there was much speculation about the ruins of buildings that had come from centuries past. There are many experts who brought out a new theory at first glance at the discovery of the magnificent city on the hill. Some of them believed Machu Picchu not as an administrative city, but the tomb of the founder of the Inka empire, Pachahutec.
The theory that supports Machu Pichu as a tomb building is based on the many parts of the building there are gold plated. While other theorists who insist on Machu Picchu as an administrative Illacta (town) that is normally the economic center of the small territories of the subordinate kingdom of Inka have not provided concrete proof. These people were convinced that the Inka nobility lived in Machu Pichu.
Apparently not only the two theories that colored the construction of Machu Pichu. Some scholars have issued the theory that Machu Pichu is the villa of influential people from the kingdom of Inka. It is also the site of astrological and seasonal observation ceremonies.
In a way, we are reminded again of the history of Chichen Itza (Mexico) which is also famous for its sophistication and their close relationship with astronomy. The buildings there even have their own counts that are all related to their science. Meanwhile, local people believe the silhouette of a mountain which in their language is called Huayna Picchu aka a young mountain is the nose of the Incan who faces the sky.
Architecture Machu Picchu
As the history of the Colosseum arranges the audience seating within its theater, Macchu Piccu also has its own in-house structure. This site has many levels where each level depicts the height of their power and honor in society. So it is predictable that the life of the Incas is against the history of human rights in the world.
The more Inka people have high positions, the higher their level of sitting in the city of Machu Picchu. All that needs to be underlined is the peak level at Machu Pichu. The Inca people use Machu Picchu's highest area as a place to pay homage to the sun. The ceremony is held daily by Inka residents.
The Result of Inka Culture
From here we can find out that the habit of worshiping the sun that came from ancient times not only owned by the Japanese in the east only. Even ancient people on the American mainland also love to worship the sun. Maybe because they feel life in the world will not run normally even terrible if there is no sun that rotates every day.
The difference lies in the cultural results of the Incas people who have been classified as advanced, almost as the Mayans rattled modern research. The Incas around Machu Picchu have a rock almost the same size as the classical piano. The stone is not an ordinary stone. Inka people call it 'intihuatana' which means the place of sunlight. And it turns out its function is as a sun clock, a time reminder for the life of the Incas.
Another custom of the Inka tribe with the Maya tribe lies in the world of agriculture. Both of these large tribes used to keep a lot of farmland to be used as a place to support the family. Cultivated plants are staple crops for them such as coca, maize and roses and other vegetables.
The Inka people grow coca does not mean they have been using drugs like cocaine and some of this modern-day drugs. At least we can know the equations of ancient people with modern people. As is customary indigenous people in the region of Papua, Indonesia consume marijuana as a lalapan rice friends daily. Of course we can not blame them for granted, let alone think that their heritage buildings are not important to be included in history just because of those ancient habits. There are other reasons that can be explained scientifically why ancient people like to consume agricultural products from basic substance plants.
Machu Picchu Emptied
Still associated with the Maya, it turns out the Inka tribe also left their magnificent city. As the Mayans left Chichen Itza they were due to newcomers. The Incas also left Macchu Picchu due to the arrival of the Spanish in the region of South America. It already has a lot of evidence in the form of a relic of ancient objects on Macchu Picchu.
Experts and archaeologists have a different opinion from reality in Machu Picchu. For them, the Incan people who had traveled from Machu Picchu were caused by the smallpox outbreak that almost became pagebluk. There are more than half of the city's population who were killed by smallpox around 1527 AD. The epidemic of this disease then weakens the greatness of Inka. There are many fellow wars in the internal kingdom.
Wherever it is, an ancient building that has a history of bleeding from war and torture will always frighten the next generation. After the kingdom of Inka was completely destroyed by the civil war, a Spanish citizen named Pizzaro just came to Cuzco. It was the year 1532 AD and Machu Picchu was a haunted city whose beauty on its clouds did not deserve to be controlled by Spain.
Actually only Machu Picchulah is the only symbol of the power of the kingdom of Inka ever known almost as big as Mayan power. The cultural heritage site is recognized by UNESCO as the world heritage aka world heritage site in 1982. It's just that its penetration in as 7 new wonders of the world managed a few decades after that.
Machu Picchu site could siphon public attention not because of its beauty that hangs over the clouds. The tourist attraction is famous for many tourists who come not to study its history, but put a lot of damage on the part of the site. Though Machu Picchu is one of the important sites that became evidence of how in ancient times many ancient civilizations that have the art of architecture is higher than the art of architecture today.
American Respect on Machu Picchu
At the time of its discoverer, Hiram Bingham encountered this site for the first time, this place looks very creepy. At the time Hiram had to open the dense vegetation of Amazon's hutam trees that seemed to have become one with the old site for centuries. You can imagine how difficult it is to open dense land in the middle of the jungle forest on a hill with medium elevation. All this is done with one main goal, studying the traces of the history of the Incas.
The Andes Mountains in Peru do have a lot of mysteries. When archaeologists know the discovery of Bingham, they immediately enthusiastic help because with the unfolding of this ancient building then there is a great civilization in human history that can be learned from the authentic evidence available. Unfortunately, the buildings in the Andes mountain range have been too long untouched by human hands.
In contrast to our society's customs, Americans are so respectful of their culture and history. Yet the history of Indonesia proved much richer than the history of the nation. One proof of Americans' respect for the new invention of Machu picchu is the crowd of visitors. About 2,500 people daily visit this site. Though the trip is not as smooth as travel to the area in the lowlands.
Media in the United States has agreed to regard Machu Picchu as the most important and most well-preserved building in the world coming from ancient civilizations. Naturally, if they issue such a statement because they are the next generation of America.
Despite being a major source of income for the Peruvian government, it is not necessarily the government is happy to continue to improve its advertising to make Machu Picchu more crowded. The government and observers of American archaeological sites are afraid of the large number of visitors coming in every day potentially damaging the old archaeological site. Until now the Peruvian government has continued to improve the protection of the site.
