The Incas who worship the sun god think that the gold in Huang Chengcheng is very similar to the brilliance of the sun, so they not only use a lot of gold when building temples and palaces, but also wear and collect gold products.
The Incas have been collecting gold since 1 1 century. If all the Inca gold is accumulated together, its value may be equivalent to the sum of all the treasures in other parts of the world at that time. Because of this, colonialists are salivating. From 1525 to 1 year, Spanish colonialists headed by Francisco Pizarro began to invade the Inca Empire.
1532, Pizarro once again led the Spanish colonial army from Panama and invaded the Inca Empire. After arriving in Cajamarca of the Inca Empire, Pizarro set a trap and took Atahualpa, the then Emperor of the Inca Empire, as a hostage, demanding that the Emperor redeem himself with as much gold as the room where he was held.
According to Pizarro's secretary Cyrus, the house where Emperor Atahualpa was held was 7 meters long, 5.5 meters wide and 3 meters high. In other words, it takes 400,000 kilograms of gold to fill this house with about 1 15 cubic meters of space. Emperor Atahualpa promised to hand over 400,000 kilograms of gold at one time, and his servant soon handed over 50,000 kilograms of gold.
The cruel Pizarro thought that if he let the emperor go like this, it would lead to Inca rebellion sooner or later. So Pizarro sued the emperor for treason, and in August 1533, he publicly executed the emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca City Square.
At this time, the emperor's servants were rushing to redeem gold for the emperor. When the Incas learned that the emperor had been executed, they quickly hid this large amount of gold. Subsequently, Pizarro led the soldiers to burn and plunder all the way from Cajamarca and drove into Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
Pedro Pizarro, Pizarro's brother, once said, "Although the most precious utensils were taken away by the Indians, we still found a golden statue, which the Indians sadly said was the ancestor of the Inca dynasty." He also said: "We found some golden crabs and gold utensils decorated with birds, spiders, snakes, lizards and other insects in a cave on the outskirts of Cuzco. An Indian told us that there were many gold plates hidden in a secret cave near the town of Villagonga. However, a few days later, the Indians who reported the situation disappeared. "
It can be seen that a large number of gold and silver treasures were secretly hidden by Indians and people will never find them. Because, at that time, the priests first let the slaves transport the gold and silver treasures near the hiding place, and then let other loyal Indians replace them. These people committed suicide without complaint after taking care of the treasure.
Some historians have confirmed by studying the customs and traditions of the Incas that the Incas hid all the treasures of their ancestors. It is estimated that what was hidden by the Incas in 1533 was the wealth of 14 Inca emperors since the century A.D.14, and its total value was equivalent to the sum of gold mined in Peru from the 6th century A.D. 1803, which was amazing.
Some people think that the Incas fled from Cuzco with gold and silver treasures and quietly came to Lake Titicaca, because this lake is the sacred place where the son of the sun god and the moon god worshipped by the Incas came to earth to create the Inca Empire. This lake is also called "Chukibo" by Indians, which means "golden basin".
Because there are abundant gold mines around the lake, Indians make all kinds of gold decorations with smelted gold. 1533 12, Diego de Azolo and Pero Martí nez de Maugourd, the men of Pizarro, went to Lake Titicaca to look for Inca treasures. Later, he occupied this area. However, until the assassination of Pizarro in 154 1 year, the Spanish never found that large Inca treasure.
So, there is no doubt that this Dabao is still sleeping underground. Some people say that the Incas arrived in Lake Titicaca with Inca gold treasures and mummies of emperors and queens of past dynasties and rowed to the center of the lake on a reed raft. At this time, a priest stood up. After praying to heaven, he ordered that all the gold treasures he brought be thrown into the lake one by one.
Others believe that the Inca treasure is in the tunnel of Sac Saiva Man fortress in the north of Cuzco. Because this is the traditional place where the Incas buried their treasures. It is said that a round tower stands in the center of the castle. On a specially built round tower platform, you can enter the tunnel through a labyrinth of tortuous passages. However, due to the complexity of the open trench tunnel, no one can find the tunnel entrance.
According to historian huber, the Spanish tried to explore the Sack Saiva tunnel, but they failed. Because the Saxony fortress is considered as one of the greatest military engineering buildings of South American Indians.
The word "Sack Saiva Mann" means "Shan Ying" in the indigenous Indian language. Fort Sack Saiva is located on a hillside 2 kilometers north of Cuzco. It can be seen from the ruins of the fortress that there are three parallel walls made of huge stones from top to bottom. Each wall is about18m high, the inner stone wall is about 360m long, and the outermost stone wall is 540m long. Some stones used to build the Great Wall weigh 300,000 kilograms. Fortress 1 * * has 2 1 forts and watchtowers, and there are many buildings nearby.
Others think that Machu Picchu, the rear of the Inca Empire, may also be a major hiding place for Inca Jinbao. In order to find Inca Jinbao, Spanish colonists and explorers who came here for various purposes for more than 300 years have been searching for this mysterious ancient city Machu Picchu in the dense forests of the Andes, but they have never found any remains.
However, in 19 1 1, hiram Ya Bingham, a young assistant professor of latin american history at Yale University in the United States, found this ancient city that had been missing for 400 years between two steep peaks of the Urubamba River, which is located at122km northwest of Cuzco.
Machu Picchu was built at the top of the misty Andes at an altitude of 2458 meters, and the terrain is very dangerous. There are roads, squares, steps, gates and spectacular temples, palaces and altars in the city. The building is made of light granite. On the altar of a temple, there is an altar made of granite slabs weighing 65438+ 10,000 kilograms. These stone buildings do not need mortar and cement, but they are very closely combined.
The discovery of Machu Picchu ghost town has aroused great interest from scholars all over the world. However, because no written records have been found, it is still an unsolved mystery when this mysterious Inca ancient city was built, why it was built and why it was abandoned.
According to the historian Hugh Bai, around 1535, Spain sent Lydia as a special envoy to negotiate with the Inca emperor Munco. Munco scattered a bowl of corn beans on the ground, then picked up one of the corn and said to Diya, "This is the Inca gold robbed by the Spanish." Then he pointed to the corn kernels on the ground and said, "This is the gold left by the Incas. I can give you all these, as long as you promise to leave here forever. "
However, due to various reasons, this transaction has never been made. People can also see from this historical episode that Munco knows the main hiding place of Inca Jinbao. However, this Inca treasure, known as the largest treasure in the world, has not been discovered so far.