The valley’s main centers, Pisac and Ollantaytambo, feature impressive ruins ... Inca textiles and handicrafts to fresh produce and souvenirs. In the black desert region of southern Peru ...

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the ... and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past. In more recent times, civil unrest broke ...

In the Apurímac Valley of Peru, less than a day’s ... water for cooking for two days. But in the ruins they found water still flowing in the old Inca fountains. “We had two dinners in a ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Earthquake-resistant masonry, sophisticated urban drainage systems and accurate astronomical observations are some of the achievements revealed in the ruins ... Inca Road. On a recent trip to Peru ...

Question: Did the Incas trade outside Peru by land or sea? ~Mabel Answer: One of the things that made the Inca empire so powerful ... aware of is probably in the ruins of Sacsahuaman near Cuzco ...