This is Q’eswachaka. The last Incan Bridge. It stands over 12,000 feet above sea level and spans 30 meters over the Apurimac River down in a majestic canyon never found by the Spanish. It was ...

The Q'ero - Descendants of the Incan High Priests Part 1 Season 1 Episode 117 | 26m 46s | CC Joining 80,000 indigenous Andeans making a pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit’i, 16,000 ft up Mt.

Stothert’s investigations influenced the work of Richard Burger, former director of Yale’s Peabody Museum, who compares the Inca road system to “the skeleton of a fish,” with its major ...

The popular myth about the mysterious doorway centers around an Inca priest named Aramu Muru, who fled Spanish conquistadors with a sacred golden disk that was kept in Koricancha temple in Cusco.

"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.

One issue is that many of these reports were published years after the conquest, making them less reliable. Another problem is the bias of Spanish chroniclers, particularly Catholic priests. They ...

Cusco, once the illustrious capital of the Inca Empire, has once again become the centre of attention for archaeologists and history enthusiasts worldwide. A remarkable discovery of underground ...

Archeologists have confirmed the existence of ancient tunnels which run under the famous city of Cusco in Peru. Cusco which is a UNESCO world heritage site is formerly the capital of the Inca ...

One account written by a Spanish priest in 1594 stated that a main tunnel began at the temple and travelled under the bishop’s house behind Cusco Cathedral, and ended at the citadel of Sacsahuaman.

Robinson recommends the lesser-known KM 104, or “Royal” Inca Trail, to many of his clients, which is a one-day hike that ends at the Sun Gate at Machu Picchu.

He wanted it as a royal place and a farm. It could have had 300 to 1,000 people, including important ones and priests. He used labor from conquered areas to build it. This showed the Inca Empire’s ...

Here was the granite observatory where Inca priests marked the solstices and claimed, each June 21 (when their freezing subjects feared midwinter starvation), that they had tied the sun to a stone.