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The Desert Speaks
The People Of Peru's Cloud Forest
Season 16
Episode 1610
David Yetman, geologist Dick Yetman and South American archaeological expert Axel Nielsen head to a museum in Leimebamba that houses the mummified ancestors of the Chachapoyas where they are allowed to examine one of the mummies up close. The crew then treks to Kuélap, an active archeological site with human remains, artifacts and areas that were once sacred to the people of Peru’s Cloud Forest.
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