The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... trips in the Andes for most of the twentieth century. Nowadays, the expansion of the road system and motorized transport has severely ...

It was during this century of expansion that the Inca built Machu Picchu, the famed “lost city” perched on a mountaintop 50 ...

"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 ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on ... roads in the southernmost regions were integral to the expansion of the empire southward. Especially important were the trans-mountain ...

The Inca Empire once stretched 2,500 miles along the ... the various peoples the Inca incorporated during their imperial expansion. Because of this cultural diversity, religion was practiced ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... trips in the Andes for most of the twentieth century. Nowadays, the expansion of the road system and motorized transport has severely ...