Hunt For The Great Sun Disc: The Inca Holy Grail | Lost City Of Gold | Odyssey

For the better part of 400 years people have searched the deep canyons & towering ice peaks of these mist-covered cloud forests trying to locate the lost cities of the Inca. They were all after one thing; gold. Any gold would do but there was one thing desired above all others, the Great Golden Disc of the Sun. The most sacred of all Inca relics. The Inca Holy Grail. It is in search of this Holy Grail that David Adams goes on his journey to Puncuyoc, sacred Sister City of Machu Picchu; the city sought but never found by Hiram Bingham.
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[@sonarbangla8711]

This video is testament to the depth to which greed of the Europeans went and testament to the will of the Inca people to beat them.

[@nicksavage4763]

What The Spanish did was Despicable. Sad. Even without any human sacrifice Gold gave them the excuse.

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

Yes yes hate on the Europeans as is typical these days

[@pumamanta1771]

@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol whoite fragility at its greatest. We all must learn from history, not whitewash it.

[@John-lv1zq]

You do realize that the Incans were cruel an subject people were forced to give them gold?

[@mariovillarreal8647]

Well put. Sonar

[@akhalif579]

excellent story amazing archeology and history hidden.

[@danichicago9140]

Mysterious Cities of Gold brought me here circa 1989

[@antidoteforlife9460]

@Tut Frut that's absurd

[@josi4251]

I have been to these places and, since I have friends in Peru that I visit, I'll be going back. All I can say is plan for the altitude! I had hiked volcanoes in Costa Rica and very high peaks in Europe. But Cusco kicked my ass and I felt drunk the entire time I was there. Drank a lot of coca tea and then hallucinated pretty things every time I closed my eyes. Of course, it was 4 months after major surgery (at age 53). But what the heck, I'll be trying it again, but this time with some Diamox tablets.

[@richardhowe5583]

Did the cocoa tea make you high? Hehehe

[@josi4251]

@@richardhowe5583 No. You can drink a quart of it and still pass a drug test. It takes a lot of processing to make cocaine. It was a combo of the altitude and the coca tea, and I suspect also the local herb sorojchi, widely sold in pharmacies. None of those should make a person high, but for whatever reason I got pretty visions.

[@falconquest2068]

Hi Josi, I have hiked the Inca trail up to the Sungate and down into Machu Picchu. I did pretty well overall but I was younger than you when I went. There is one 12,000' pass that really kicked my butt. It was like 4-6 steps and stop and breathe, 4-6 steps, stop and breathe some more. The Porters are simply amazing athletes!

[@josi4251]

@Smile Feel LOL

[@harrow2355]

Go you good thing,all the best.

[@austinpoll]

The Sun Disc was either taken by the Spanish invaders and broken down a melted. Or the the Europeans that rediscovered the room of gold took it and realized the couldn't tell anyone about having it due to its historical significance

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Maybe since they knew the Spanish were after anything gold and it was a very sacred object to them, they buried it or dropped in one of the many cave pools used for rebirth rituals.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

@@capucine2347 Yea, German's or the French would have been better.

[@josieantipala874]

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[@williamolivadoti3867]

Yes probably melted down... Spanish didn`t care about its significance; they never did. They were not archaeologists. They destrouyed anything pagan to them in Peru., even the Inca manuscripts. They also probably stripped all the sites cos the sites were problby covered in gold also...That is why some of the sites dont make any sense cos just bare stones but make sense if covered in gold with gold statues in the niches etc. Only other poassibility that it is at the bottom of the ocean somewhere in a Spanish wreck. There is a Spanisj galleon captured by the French at the bottom of the St. Lawrence River mud. Location unknown. Reported being there in the French archives by Biggar and Goodwin

[@michaeljohnson8837]

It's in the Vatican basement 🤣🤣

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Would love to see this man do a series of places world-over, of his choice, using Lidar.* Particularly areas in the America's, North to South, Basque Country, Ireland, Sardinia. Anatolia, and then the Next Series that would include: all the area around the East Mediterranean. The Levant through Iraq, Iran, and Egypt - *all free to explore the real history, absent of any Mainstream Archaeologists that hold a Theory as Fact and forcing all into their Paradigm,. Rather, with Authentic Academics that follow the Standards of Science and Research. This would be such an exciting work and productiom. I've enjoyed all these documentaries.

[@jodysanders6445]

We can dream…

[@jember2001]

Great scenery beauty of nature

[@eramentry5698]

awesome watch mate thank you

[@Jezidka]

What amazes me is how much forest there still is when they built a city of gold and jewels. I wonder how much wood there was during that time.

[@falconquest2068]

Cloud forests are interesting in that every day the plants gather moisture from the passing clouds. This makes them grow very well at that altitude. It must have been amazing though to be the first ones there.

[@fartamayo]

In reality there is no such city of gold, bcoz gold is a soft metal. The spaniards were fooled.

[@johnscanlon2598]

@@fartamayo gold plated fool

[@cattymajiv]

There are almost no forests left anywhere worldwide. Even Canada, Russia, and the Amazon are over 90% deforested now. It's an incredible tragedy. But nobody really cares enough to get off their butts about it.

[@oviliatam7540]

謝謝~♡♡♡

[@jessicavelez4169]

Great video

[@nancyschumacher8940]

I am a little bit Quechua myself..David might be one of my distant cousins. Great information!

[@bustownbc2787]

Well done

[@MusicFandom]

22:16 anyone else see the cross on the rock in the rapids?

[@chestersabajo5527]

It's called the Andean Cross

[@terencemckenna6468]

43:17 Meanwhile, there's a major highway about 20 yards away from this improvised foot path.

[@cattymajiv]

Yup. Just like in Canada. There are almost no trees left anywhere, except for a ribbon on both sides of the highways, so that tourists will THINK that there are miles of wilderness. I've seen all of northern Canada by airplane. There was nothing but clearcuts, for as far as the eye could see, all across the north, for the entire day that it took to fly over it. I was SO SHOCKED and broken hearted! The forests do not exist anymore.

[@iceshcratiote3635]

Remanufactring is really a past epic len . Youlive you die u ATEC

[@Afro408]

Where did the the right hand drive truck suddenly come from? 🤷‍♂️ One second we’re creeping along the mountain road in the old jaloppy, camera zooms in on the quick gear change and the hole in the floor of a right hand drive truck? Strange shape shifting. 😳🤣🤣 Very good story. 👍👍👏👏👏👏

[@aaroncapricorn5867]

more daring than most. he went down into a raging river water, ate guinea pigs, which, around here, we consider potentially infected rodents. i guess you can cook it all out xD

[@googleisslime8075]

The Inca's have the disc and they will NEVER show it to anyone because it would only be stolen...

[@pedrotampos2877]

yessss

[@teofilotiongson6258]

Awsome😇😇😇

[@hhazelhoff1363]

Looks like there are lots of good trees there we could harvest. And that disk your looking for is long gone bro. I hope on your next adventure you ry to find Sant Clause. Cheers keep drinking the beers. It’s having a effect

[@juliapay2473]

I think the disc is still here somewhere....hidden. Don't you?

[@silverforest4682]

Why were the terrace gardens abandoned? Didn't they find the wall pretty easily?

[@billyb37]

Already melted down!!!

[@jontyarnold8522]

I enjoyed that….

[@raymondtorres196]

Nothing like a good ol spit 🍻 beer, with 🌽 corn of course!! 😉🤣🤣🤣

[@TheRealMarxz]

17:16 that Widelux (or Horizon) photo would have been interesting with the riders moving like that

[@AcousticAdd1ct]

When exploring a new place and you want to find out how wide it is, bring a drone that way its easier to see the vastness of the place even if its covered in bushes and jungles At least you know which part of the place you are in.

[@jesusisking33ad]

You'll need a permit to bring a drone into the country. The Peruvian government is pretty strict on this.

[@ColdasIcePrincezz]

Everytime I see this video it's like the first time.

[@st4rwalker]

Hello beautiful

[@ALI44344]

مع تطور العلم وخصوصآ اجهزة الرايدار لا اضن انه ستكون هناك مدينه ضائعه لا يتم اكتشافها على الاطلاق

[@DarylSolis]

Spanish arrive* Incas: Why have you come? Spanish: Gold Incas: Ah! we have a lot of gold! Spanish: ..Show me Incas: OK :) *RIP Inca empire*

[@jamesking1495]

Yeah it didn't happen like that.

[@jamesking1495]

@Smile Feel so you think it happened like that?

[@jamesking1495]

@Smile Feel besides OP was very ignorant, maybe even trolling

[@jamesking1495]

@Smile Feel settle down

[@jamesking1495]

@Smile Feel why would you think I'm Spanish? Far from it

[@dizzc7838]

Just brought it on eBay ☀️

[@victorfloresperu]

Those shields are only used by aristocracy and they are hanged using chains as a necklace. Were widely used in the 16 th century. My hypothesis is that some aristocrat that came from Europe built it to wear it either in the UK or Spain.

[@dircxx8554]

Every time I look at this guy remind me of chief ransoms 🤔😊

[@London97]

I have the sun disc … It’s sitting in my garden shed 😊

[@jesussavescars807]

Holy crap that’s real gold I know who has this hahaha😂🙌

[@wigwam3270]

My dude Don Tieflo would be a good drinking buddy. I’d pay money for him to drive me around and taking me to good eating and drinking + scenic scene spots there.

[@rineshkodan3587]

It is sad to see that greed has destoyed soo much wonderfull and nice things across the world

[@Drawde1Joints1Sneek]

re-uploaded video?

[@elzaaltmann]

I had heard in the seventies that gold had been thrown into a lake, an extremely deep one.

[@johnscanlon2598]

Lake Titicaca

[@marioreoyan3405]

that would be lake titicaca and a lot of lake in peru, people not stop for that matter

[@treasureexplorationandrese3712]

More things still waiting out there than have ever been found...

[@venkataramanjanardhanan3201]

I can only dream of visiting peru

[@PuhiPureBloOdYT]

Machu Pichu was not built by the Inca they built on top of structures that were already there

[@oftin_wong]

It's just that theres no evidence for imaginary theories like that, thankfully

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@oftin_wong It is what the Inca said and there are vast resources that support the facts. One need only research, step outside of a Mainstream Classroom that teaches a 19th Century Theory as their fact foundation and it's relative Paradigm. They do so, Fully in opposition to the "Standards of Science and Research"

[@oftin_wong]

@@bethbartlett5692 or so you think. If it's not mainstream it's just imagination ...I'm sorry but we need to do things properly, not wave magical wands wearing a cloak and call it special science

[@oftin_wong]

@@bethbartlett5692 where exactly do you think the evidence is that 'the inca' ...said what you are asserting, I'd be interested to know what you are drawing on there

[@oftin_wong]

@@bethbartlett5692 give me some of those vast resources ....waiting here ?

[@antidoteforlife9460]

The most awesome vacation, just take a camera crew and record it to make a documentary

[@herblopez8657]

I was melted

[@jivanvasant]

Google Earth, Satellite Photography and Topographic Maps Advanced technology provides modern tools for exploration of the Earth's surface It would be helpful to know the GPS coordinates of the "lost temples of the Incas" -- Longitude, Latitude & Altitude

[@iamalphapg3748]

The only problem is we do not know if that treasure ever existed or not, we do not know it it was taken back to spain or the ship was sunken, we do not know if the treasure is underground or lost somewhere... In order to get such treasure with countless possibilities we need something more advanced or maybe a x-ray of earth itself😅

[@MattXShaver]

Where is the place he hiked to called Inca Wasi? Is that Choquequirao?

[@KirkLee1983]

Already been found in the river under waterfall with other Gold chalices etc. Just being kept on the down low!!

[@kennethnyhus1337]

Proof?

[@vincentdavidson755]

I believe the disk of gold is hidden In the mountains of Calif. A old man that had records of his grandfather had said that this Place in Calif he was told by his Ancestors that their is a barrel Ground inside these caverns and Theirs a large sun disk made from Gold and a giant and other things In these hidden caverns in the Mountains and the entrance was Seal up I know where the area is And I'm looking for a certain rock I also found menny markers and It is very close to the underground River of gold👱

[@Mmjaouni]

Boy bye

[@vincentdavidson755]

@@Mmjaouni 2026 🔥

[@cbrown9555]

I was in Peru in 1975, searching for oil. I meet a young old Indian man, who told me about

[@MKMN99]

who wrote the song 26.30---?

[@johnwayneeverett6263]

already been found Terrys treasures channel

[@_pant0m]

3:55

[@obijuankenobi420]

Lawd have mercy

[@jemshadow123]

14:25 isnt that how kombatcha is made? Hipsters spitting into barrels for it to ferment?

[@jamescampbell39]

I thought Harry Steel found the disk in Secrets of The Incas back in the 1950s?

[@Nick-jx9li]

It’s not in Peru, I bought it at a tag sale in MA for about $3. I use it as a frisbee sometimes.

[@Eeveegamer9263]

Tell me you are joking 👻

[@saskoilersfan]

The sun disk...the light disk...the energy disk. It's scattered on each continent.... The Mayan disk is united with dream catcher wiring... There are 5 disks in total... Each creating a type of energy and merged to one . It's like a rope made of a variety of energies... To me , the Mayan disk looks like microchips and resistors and other electronics. To me , the dream catcher is a disk of wiring sequence... Needs brushes for magnetics... Needs a. Crank and ratio system . Create it to be self eternally run... Creates it's own energy to power itself . No batteries. No plugs . Free energy.

[@illinnear7233]

what on earth are you on about?

[@saskoilersfan]

@@illinnear7233 old technology hidden in art forms. Duh.

[@zeromckim2597]

Make sense

[@francescharters6697]

Las Montana's es bonita

[@shane7024]

I found it last year, it's partially broken with a giant carved head on it. ArcAngel Exploration LLC

[@zushaynafemi3234]

this sun disc reminds me of the plate used in Fa (Ifa) divinations done in Vodun religion from Fon and Yoruba people of Benin and Nigeria. interesting.

[@ColdasIcePrincezz]

We people of color are all connected.

[@mth469]

Why is there no smiley face 🙂 on the Sun disc?

[@MrJengo22]

Has anyone ever had visions about this sun disc🤔. I remember Years ago i was at a random party, my vision started become static like as though i stood up too quick, i walked to the bathroom 5 meters away practically blind, threw up and began seeing a vivid sun disc with the maya/inca face and fractal/jagged patterns around. This has only ever happened to me once in my life and it was quite the “wtf🙂” moment.

[@TheDoubleO420Show]

Alot of lost stuff

[@yomommaahotoo264]

One can only imagine what kind of civilization would have emerged if the Inca had acquired metal work skills and gun powder prior the Spanish fiasco.

[@kalilzaidan]

I would recommend you to read the novel "Civilizations", by French author Laurent Binet if you are interested in the topic. he reimagines an Incan Empire with guns and horses that invades Europe! very creative

[@nevyen149]

@@kalilzaidan Or take it a step farther..."West of Eden" by Harry Harrison is about an Earth where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out, and they are the ones to reach the civilization level before some upstart mammals called humans.

[@themobseat]

Unfortunately, North and South America were perpetually stuck in a semi-stone age existence. Similar to the primitive existence of several Sub-Saharan areas in Africa today.

[@nevyen149]

@@themobseat That's basically incorrect. North and South America had some cities which were as big or bigger than any European city of the same time period. When a dirty Hernan Cortes and his rabble entered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on November 8th, 1519...the city had a population of at least 200,000...5 times the size of London, and they had a water system as good as any the Romans ever built, and twice daily trash collection. The Maya had a mathematical and astronomical knowledge which out classed that of Europe of the same age, and many cultures in the New World had expertise in monumental stone architecture. Metal work in gold alloys, and some copper work show they had categorically moved past the stone age, and the complexity of societies in the New World show they were not living a "primitive existence". The story of sub-Saharan Africa has many similarities to the New World, in that there were complex societies, who made it to the level of producing iron...again, significantly past the "stone age", but were decimated by later contact with European colonialist and the diseases they spread.

[@mariainespuigchinet]

@@themobseat not at all, and may be it could be better ...in fact what we are living to day , the "modern life," is not a good example of "evolution"...

[@samfelicious9091]

The sundisk was given to pachakuthi. But in this video no body speaks abt pachakuthi??

[@m.j.morshead]

One thing that i am certain about is that i am certain i have no idea where the sun disk is,but it might be on oak island.👍🇭🇲

[@dianebrayden4123]

Seeking the gold, as it was mention in the first few verses of Genises. Nothing new under the sun.

[@leeoconnor9302]

Sun disk is in sky

[@ThomasWilliams-bk6fd]

The disc was put in the hole at amuru and the priest disappeared with the disc.

[@silverforest4682]

Do the porters always wear their best outfits or did they dress for the taping?

[@kathyaohlen7667]

who cares ?

[@joshdavies8326]

At 12.40 he looked like a young Gordon Ramsay

[@sheaburns3713]

It has most definitely been melted down

[@rainrani8421]

I’m seeing the skeleton of Truck for the first time in my life.

[@ColHogan-bu2xq]

The great golden disc of the sun has probably been taken under the Andes by the Inca king, just before the Spanish soldiers came back to massacre everybody after they discovered so much gold. I don't remember where I read this. William Landig ? Jan van Helsing ?

[@miketaulbut7568]

Pizarro had them fill a room twice with gold. For one month straight they fired the coke ovens to melt it all down.

[@johnhall7850]

Remove cameras and covering shots, those roads wouldn't be so bad. 😶👍

[@louisthatguy5658]

The inca believed that when they end, they become that white rock. So if the sun disk would’ve ended. It would’ve followed the inca.. I’m just saying

[@RENunez-sd6ov]

I have it, it's in my backyard as a birdbath, why is someone looking for it?

[@jesusisking33ad]

Did kayak guy just leave? lol

[@ricksdojo6763]

"more gringos will climb Mt Everest this year, than have been to where we're going in the last 400 years" - Gringo

[@donvrgz9470]

And thats how it should be Peru doesn't need a ton of empty oxygen tanks, bags of feces, or dead bodies lining up the trails like what they have done to Mt. Everest.

[@danielt.3152]

When we say the Inca had gold, that may be slightly misleading, my understanding is that the purity level was not up to 24K standards, it would have been mixed with other metal but still look like gold.

[@monicascott2354]

🙄

[@hennochicken]

Thank you for being reasonable lol

[@spekenbonen72]

The lost City of Gold: A city where they used clamps made of gold (to keep the stones together) because it was abundant. The Spanish demolished these buildings to see if there were more golden clamps. Anyway. Eldorado was real. Doesn't exist anymore though.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

The gold would have been too soft to "staple" the stones together.

[@hennochicken]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 mixing gold with silver,copper,etc. makes it more durable and less malleable

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

@@hennochicken Mixing Soft Metals doesn't make them Harder.

[@smokerflowing3594]

It's under ground.

[@CM-le1yb]

I canny take that host seriously 🙈😂

[@CM-le1yb]

Why not get in the motor with the camera person 😂

[@williambenner5550]

Canny? Do you mean can't?

[@oftin_wong]

It's like he got permission from his mother to make the documentary and pocket money for the trip plus a cut lunch

[@CM-le1yb]

@@williambenner5550 Glaswegian mother tongue William . We say canny for can’t 👍

[@yureituesday]

I was seriously disappointed when I found out it was him

[@shaunwhalen6223]

Leave it

[@bakerstreet101]

the masonry of the jungle-covered town at the end does not match the perfectly aligned stones of the walls of Cusco.

[@nssherlock4547]

Of course, they were on the run from the Spanish, hardly had the time or man power to invest in pretty walls, survival would of been the priority of the day.

[@AdrianMartinez-wh4bp]

didn't even take the metal detector my boi? wth

[@Kid_Kootenay]

HA early on I was questioning the guys choice of wearing gators in the jungle then shortly after he goes face first onto the dirt like a lawn dart lol caught up on his leggings FUNNY!!!

[@therickpound]

Ask the Vatican for ledgers pertaining to Spanish ship manifests…you will need a permit, best of luck.

[@tykat7327]

Already melted down by Vatican

[@greenstreet5287]

why would pagan pedos disclose anything to their sheeple?

[@therickpound]

@@greenstreet5287 you don’t ask to c what you actually want to c, however permit can be obtained to view very surprising archives. Just saying, would at least have made this a little more interesting, 99% common knowledge if you have ever had an interest tbh.

[@oftin_wong]

Vatican is an italian state, Spain was Spain, it's a different country the incan gold stayed in Spain

[@therickpound]

@@oftin_wong the ship manifests for much Spanish gold are there. Envoys & Agents reported from the eastern seaboard ports directly to the CC from 1518 - 39 as the Spanish plundered the Americas.

[@ElizabethDMadison]

I feel like they knew the city was there because they found it by LIDAR. Really, they don't know the extent? Pretty cool though.

[@oftin_wong]

I like the 'Hyrem Bingham' dudes boy scout uniform

[@jivanvasant]

LIDAR Elizabeth D > Thanks for sharing. Lidar is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. Lidar can also be used to make digital 3-D representations of areas on the earth's surface and ocean bottom, due to differences in laser return times, and by varying laser wavelengths. It has terrestrial, airborne, and mobile applications.

[@ogedeh]

I mean.. if I found it, I can't promise I'd say anything lol

[@sorcerersofstone]

I would say, best to let this one go. It is hidden for a reason.

[@blanchedavidian6574]

Paititi?

[@Billydeekidds]

Apparently it's been found by a American I've just seen the interview on KZbin.

[@Chris-from-AZ]

This isnt the holy grail of are people!! When we were traveling looking for are promised land We had this thing call ARK OF THE COVENANT We had a leader named Meci Where we get are name mexica Which you call today Moses

[@pangaeaproximap.p4408]

37:00

[@Koda076]

Sounds like this has been found....watch terry carters video.

[@AntzLoks1314]

El_Choctaw_Lord_De_CalifasMexicoAztlan 🐜🐜

[@CurriedBat]

Was that first temple a shot of Coricancha? The literal 'Temple of Gold' that was built for Inti the sun god? Looted and destroyed by the Spanish, who stripped the smooth stone walls that once were golden. Now a Catholic Monastery sits atop, essentially desecrating the once holy site. Oh of course you explain it later hehe. In Canada some people are burning down Catholic churches on Indigenous land... it is quite sad. Indigenous rights are returning with awareness however, and so educating videos such as this are very important. Very cool. As a writer, I find that I need to go to these places in order to finish my own stories. I've never been to Peru, so that's next on the list.

[@CityG2008]

I am a Canadian Indigenous woman from the Squamish Nation tribe in North Vancouver, my father was a Residential School victim/survivor. There’s NOTHING sad about burning down the prisons you call a church. God did not reside within those walls, nor within any of the men and women who claimed to come in the name of the lord. They were rapists. They were child abusers. They tortured innocent children. They brutalized them. They robbed their innocence. They were evil demons and those schools were their temples. Burn them all to the ground!