As the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire, they were impressed by what they saw. “Inca cities were as large as those of Europe, but more orderly and by all accounts much cleaner and more pleasant ...

The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains ...

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever ... mountain agriculture – and building cities to match. Incan society was so rich that it ...

Nowadays, llama meat is rarely consumed in the big cities ... empire in the Americas, the largest native American state of the Americas. Namely, the Inca Empire which ran all the way from Equador ...

The Inca Road is one of the most extraordinary feats of engineering in the world. By the 16th Century it had helped transform a tiny kingdom into the largest empire in the Western hemisphere.

are all oriented along the trends of these major faults. "The layout clearly reflects the fracture matrix underlying the site," says Menegat. Other ancient Incan cities, including Ollantaytambo ...