Life: Dan starts in Cusco, exploring how the Inca rose to power. He journeys along Inca roads through the Andes to Machu Picchu where he finds out how this extraordinary city operated and its favoured location in the heart of a sacred landscape of mountains, natural and cosmic forces. Experts include Jose Bastante, a renowned archaeologist who has spent many years studying Machu Picchu, and Jago Cooper of the Sainsbury Centre, a world expert on South American civilisations.