South America's lost cradle of civilization --
Discovering Peru's earliest cities --
South America's first people --
Ceramics, textiles, and organized states --
Chavín and the rise of religious authority --
Cupisnique to Salinar -- elite rulers and war --
Paracas -- mummies, shamans, and severed heads --
The Nazca lines and underground channels --
The Moche -- pyramids, gold, and warriors --
The Moche -- richest tombs in the world --
The Moche -- drugs, sex, music, and puppies --
Enigmatic Tiwanaku by Lake Titicaca --
The Amazon -- civilization lost in the jungle --
The Wari -- foundations of the Inca Empire? --
The Chimú -- empire of the northern coast --
The Sican -- goldsmiths of the northern coast --
The Inca origins -- mythology v. archaeology --
Cuzco and the Tawantinsuyu Empire --
The Inca -- from raiders to empire --
The Inca -- gifts of the empire --
The Khipu -- language hidden in knots --
Machu Picchu and the sacred valley --
Spanish contact -- Pizarro conquers the Inca --