A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, all made without iron tools or draft animals. Over the course of several ...

Menegat believes the Incas took advantage of these preexisting fractures to fit compatible pieces together. Machu Picchu is ...

Is it possible that melting glaciers or other natural weather forces played a part in the material handling aspects of building some of the Inca structures, and/or aided the Incas with water and ...

"The spatial structures of the tambos relate to the sacred landscape and the division of pilgrims by social rank, including Incas, priests, victims, and ordinary pilgrims," noted HeritageDaily.

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.

According to archaeologist Juan Schobinger, "Inca sacrifices often involved the ... and often stones for the camp structures from the villages below) would be coralled, and permanent stone ...