A long arrow pointed uphill. The east road. Antisuyu was what the Inca called the northeastern section of the empire. It included part of the Amazon Basin, a land they considered hot, dangerous ...

In the turmoil of those decades, the Inca's sprawling network of roads, storehouses, temples, and estates began slowly falling into ruin. As the empire crumbled, the Inca and their descendants ...

The Inca Road was built by engineers and laborers working with bronze and stone tools and llamas. At the height of the Inca Empire, it integrated nearly ten million people from a hundred nations.

Halfway around the globe, the Inca Road running from Quito to Cuzco to Santiago covered over 5,000 miles, forming the nerve system of the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas. The Inca ...

Men aged 15 to 50 were required to donate a portion of their time to the empire’s various construction projects, everything from the Sapa Inca’s palace to roads, bridges, and storehouses.

At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest ... the form of work - each subject of the empire paid "taxes" by laboring on the myriad roads, crop terraces, irrigation canals ...

he said that there was nothing comparable with the Inca road system. And if you see the extension of the Inca Empire, if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs, it’s like four of five times ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice. To the ...

The history of the Plaza de Armas stretches back all the way to the Inca Empire when it was called Huacaypata or Aucaypata. The massive square (originally twice its current size) was built as a ...

At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest ... the form of work - each subject of the empire paid "taxes" by laboring on the myriad roads, crop terraces, irrigation canals ...

he said that there was nothing comparable with the Inca road system. And if you see the extension of the Inca Empire, if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs, it’s like four of five times ...