The Mysterious Stone Monuments of Markawasi Peru 2-Disc DVD Set - $24.95 Running Time: 183 minutes
Disc one: The hour-long film as seen on The Documentary Channel
Disc two: Two hours of additional bonus materials including interviews, footage, maps and historical information. A rare archival video featuring Daniel Ruzo in his
1968 sojourn to the stone forests in France and Romania, includes footage of Markawasi (French Language Film),
and an interview with a world-famous psychic revealing a possible extra-terrestrial connection. A second hour in Spanish with behind-the-scenes interviews and
a rare Spanish language video. Included is a DVD-Rom sampler of our companion book: Markawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest
Special includes BOOK & DVD $39.95. Limited time offer.
High atop a remote plateau in Central Peru, hundreds of bizarre faces were discovered in the living rock. Are they merely erosion, or were they carved by some long-forgotten race? Many are fantastic forms that defy description, but others look uncannily like familiar images that should not be in Peru; a pharaoh from Egypt, a lion from Africa, a Moai from Easter Island? Interviewed are the original discoverer, a 91-year-old explorer, a world-famous paleontologist from Boston University, and the director of excavations at Machu Picchu. What they found is amazing and may call for us to re-think Peru’s ancient past. In 1952, Dr. Daniel Ruzo, a Peruvian scholar, discovered stone statues carved into the living rock of Markawasi. This unusually flat plateau, at 12,500’ has over 200 statues, although the neighboring peaks have none. Ruzo gives us his explanation who carved the statues and why. The makers survived a world-wide flood, he says, and they left these statues to warn us of a similar cataclysm that will soon befall us.
We follow a research team and view dozens of incredible statues. With the help of computer graphics, we compare some of the fantastic forms to familiar images from the past. Many statues look eerily similar to Egyptian pharaohs and animal deities. Did the makers of Markawasi have direct contact with Ancient Egypt?
World-famous paleontologist Dr. Robert Schoch (NBC’s Emmy Award winning The Mystery of the Sphinx) examines the statues and gives his surprising conclusions. The statues are covered with a patina of lichen that takes thousands of years to accumulate. He comments on the eerie similarity between the face of The Great Sphinx, and a huge face at Markawasi’s highest elevation, called “The African Queen”.
Peter Schneider, a British radio personality, has been obsessed with Markawasi for over 20 years. He leads the investigation and shows us some of his favorite statues; The Monument of Humanity: an 85 foot high carving that combines four distinct races of humanity in one bizarre statue. The Pharaoh: 40-foot high face perched at the edge of a 1,000 foot cliff. The Pharaoh has the typical Egyptian Menes headdress, Ureus (snake) on the forehead, and false beard found on virtually every depiction of Egyptian Royalty.
Markawasi (also spelled Marcahuasi), located at 12,500' in the Andes Mountains. The statue at the right is the Monument to Humanity. Named by Daniel Ruzo for the four distinct races of humanity which can be found on this 85 foot high monument. Situated at the Northern entrance to the plateau, it greets all visitors
The man responsible for what little is known about Marcahuasi, was the late Daniel Ruzo, a Peruvian explorer. This interview was probably his last, filmed in 1991. With his wife Carola translating (both pictured left), we learn of his theories about the creation of the images in Markawasi. A forgotten race created the statues before they were destroyed by a world-wide cataclysm. A warning to us, he says.
According to the Ruzo's, the previous humanity lived on earth in Proto-History; before our civilization. They were very advanced, able to travel world wide and left evidence of themselves in many places. (see Romanian "Sphinx", right) This agrees with theories of the Hopi Indians suggesting we are not the first humanity to reach a degree of developmental sophistication, but probably the fourth
This new video is a complete expansion of the original short film, "Peru's Mystery in Stone". It is probably the most comprehensive documentation of Markawasi
that has ever been made. Our crew returned to the plateau, this time with a world-famous geologist (Dr. Robert M. Schoch The Mystery of the Sphinx) and the former
head of archaeology at Machu Picchu (Dr. Marino Sanchez)
In a rare moment of discovery, explorer Peter E. Schneider photographed this delicate image. He calls it The Egyptian Princess. It is one of the many clues that suggest
contact between Peru and Egypt in the distant past.
“Markawasi defies all previously-known timelines and, if not one of the oldest, it is, without doubt, one of the most curious and extraordinary of all places on the planet.
It cannot be easily defined by other historical sites.” - Peter E. Schneider
Could the builders of Markawasi have traveled to Egypt? The African Queen stone monument bears a close resemblance to the profile of the Great Sphinx of Egypt
according to Dr. Schoch.
The original music score by Fritz Heede illuminates this fascinating documentary.
