Leyenda Aurea
Todos los mitos de la antigüedad sobre riquezas fabulosas y las alucinaciones de la Edad Media sobre islas Afortunadas o regiones de Utopía y ensueño y todas las recetas arcanas y la experiencia mágico-religiosa de los alquimistas medievales para trasmutar los metales en oro, se esfuman y languidecen en el siglo XVI, ante el hallazgo de asombro del Imperio de los Incas y de los tesoros del Koricancha. El tesoro de los Incas del Cuzco excede al de todos los botines de la historia: al saco de Génova, al de Milán, al de Roma, al de la prisión del rey Francisco o al despojo de Moctezuma, dirá maravillado el cronista de los Reyes Católicos, porque "el rey Atahualpa tan riquísimo e aquellas gentes e provincias de quien se espera y han sacado otros millones muchos de oro, hacen que parezca poco todo lo que en le mundo se ha sabido o se ha llamado rico".
Raúl Porras Barrenechea
Almost five centuries ago the most fabulous
treasure that exists within the KORICANCHA or TEMPLE OF THE SUN OF THE INCAS
disappeared before the Spanish conquerors of Peru:
"tons of gold in the form of statues, solar disks, trees, flowers, birds,
pitchers, and ceremonial objects, were placed in safekeeping"
For many years there has been speculation that the most valuable and sacred pieces of
Inca gold had ended up in underground rooms that were accessed through long secret
tunnels existing in the subsoil of Cusco. Many chroniclers and researchers such as
Garcilaso de la Vega, Cieza de León, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Martin de Morua,
Sarmiento de Gamboa, Ernst Middendorf, William Montgomery McGovern, and even
Alexander Von Humboldt referred to this network of stories in their writings tunnels.
Until now, its existence and origin had never been publicly documented. Many have
speculated about the purpose, age and creators of the network, and it is that,
ultimately, archaeologists, contrary to what one might think, have been the last to
dedicate themselves to investigating and gathering information about the enigma of
the tunnels of the Cusco.
For the first time in our time, thanks to the new technologies applied to cutting-edge
archaeological research (GPR - Georadar remote sensing systems), which allow the
detection of artificial structures in the subsoil at great depths, the researcher
ANSELM PI RAMBLA, a specialist in pre-Columbian cultures and his team,
have begun a systematic exploration in the Saqsaywaman
Archaeological Park and in the ancient Temple of the Sun (Koricancha), to unearth the
lost Inca ceremonial ensembles and clear up all the doubts of historians and
researchers about an enigma considered by many as a mere legend:
"the existence of an extensive network of tunnels of prodigious Inca manufacture,
which started from the Temple of the Sun (Koricancha), current Santo Domingo Convent,
and which would reach the archaeological area of Saqsaywaman, crossing the entire city
of Cusco and connecting on its way with the main Inca palaces of the time, being able
to house inside a good part of the Inca treasure hidden in that underground network at
the time of the Spanish conquest".
Convento Santo Domingo - Koricancha
