Joe Rogan Reveals The Mystery of the Inca Roads in the Desert

Joe Rogan Reveals The Mystery of the Inca Roads in the Desert  #joeregan #mystry #desert

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00:00You want to hear something really fascinating?

00:01Sure.

00:02In the Chilean desert, the Inca Empire were building upon roads that went all across South America.

00:06And these roads weren't initially, the foundations weren't laid by the Inca.

00:10They may have been improved by the Inca, but they go back to the Wari Empire, which predates the Inca.

00:15And it almost certainly goes back further than this.

00:17The southernmost point of these highways, it goes off into the Chilean desert, into the Atacama Desert,

00:22and they just kind of disappear into the desert.

00:23And for a long time, it's been a mystery of what the heck are these Peruvians doing down in the Chilean desert?

00:29What is it down there?

00:30What's a resource that they need?

00:31But there are these acid deposits that are down in that desert.

00:34Somehow they invented this clay pottery that whatever they used to make it,

00:37the acid wouldn't melt through the pottery, so you could carry it.

00:39There's evidence of this at Tiwanaku as well, which I'm sure you've heard of Tiwanaku.

00:44There's evidence of this acid at Tiwanaku, and people would talk about how the acid could melt the stones.

00:49And so there's all these myths about those roads go down there because they are mining and collecting the acids,

00:54and they're bringing them back, and they're softening the outside of the stone.