Gee... since the folks in that region don't bow toward the East and pray several times a day, I guess we can rule out friendly Muslim adventurers....
"I guess we can rule out friendly Muslim adventurers"
Since there was no such thing as Islam prior to the 7th century, that's a good bet, but that "twelfth emperor" thing would probably sound rather Muslim, to a Muslim.
Um, wow. This has to be probably the most overtly Eurocentric nonsense that I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. No wonder the history of underrepresented peoples is so held back, because we have white men traveling across oceans and stealing people’s cultures(sarcasm). The author kills two birds with one stone here by concluding that white men actually did build Tiahuanaco based on some silly myth about a bearded pale-skinned “GOD” and based on nothing else whatsoever. Then while postulating who it could have been, they include Egyptians who aren’t even white today, let alone in the past and live in Africa where their civilization was spawned, not Europe! OMG this is so ridiculous that I don’t know what else to say besides death to Eurocentrism!