genghis kahn was still roaming the earth. this is before the conquistadors had started descending on south america as well. it s a really important period of history for them to study. here is this guy parading around with this thing. this sort of thing has happened before. you know, brianna, the looting of artifacts if, in fact, this is how this all worked out, the looting of artifacts from all over the world happens all the time. sometimes it s just like this, someone gets access to one for some reason, and they pack it up and they
coque: the the street food in peru is starting to disappear, really disappear, yeah. anthony: really? why? coque: because, you know, the neighbors, they anthony: oh, the neighbors complain? coque: complain. anthony: our friend coque brought us to this place. [ coque speaking spanish ] anthony: to dona pochita, a street stall named for the lady who runs the joint. [ coque speaking spanish ] [ anthony laughs ] anthony: they specialize in one thing. coque: beef heart, anticuchos. anthony: anticuchos is quechan for skewered meat. this stuff, they say, goes back all the way to the incas and was as immediately popular with the spanish conquistadors as it is today. ooh, that looks good. which is to say, i must have some. damn. traditionally, a mix of beef hearts and other animal parts. coque: chicken hearts. anthony: yes. coque: you have a gizzards and there s tripe. anthony: right. marinated in garlic, cumin, and onion, maybe a little vinegar. oh yeah. grill t
The Maya were a powerful pre-Columbian civilization who thrived between AD 600 – AD 800. They were literate, had a complex language including pictograms, glyphs, and phonetic representations. They even produced books called codices, some of which were reported to detail 800 years of their history.