Located in the lower Urubamba Valley of Peru, Machu Picchu is one of the most emblematic archaeological sites of the Americas. It has come to symbolize the Inca Empire, which originated in Cuzco, in the south Peruvian highlands. In the 15th and early 16th centuries AD, the Incas rapidly conquered huge areas, before they succumbed to the Spaniards in the 1530s. Not long after Machu Picchu’s scientific discovery in 1911, rather fanciful interpretations regarding the ancient nature and function of this “lost city of the Incas” began to circulate. Since the 1980s, however, ethnohistorical and archaeological knowledge regarding the site has increased considerably. Scholars now agree: Machu Picchu was no typical Inca settlement, but, rather, a pr...
Incan culture keeps indefatigably in attracting divergent scientific disciplins for research studies...
Le royaume néo-inca de Vilcabamba est communément assimilé à une cité perdue. Refuge où les derniers...
On the occasion of Peru’s Independence, the champions of the Creole nation elevated the Inca State I...
If mysteries were ranked, Machu Picchu would be on the top of the list. This Incan site, destination...
Machu Picchu in modern day Peru was built around 1450AD and has been named as one of the Seven Wonde...
The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is usually interpreted as a “royal estate” of the Inca ruler Pachac...
In 1438 the Inca Empire began its farmation and lasted until 1533 when Francisco Pizarra, takes poss...
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American h...
Machu Picchu, voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world’s most famous archaeolo...
Machu Picchu is a masterpiece of Incan civil engineering and architecture. It took much skill to bui...
This article examines the incorporation of Machu Picchu into twentiethcentury Peruvian history, thro...
The Incas formed the last and greatest empire that existed in the western hemisphere prior to the ar...
Machu Picchu: conservation problems at an inca site in the ceja de selva (cloud forest) of the easte...
Pre-Columbian Inca site in south-central Peru, 3555 m above sea-level on a hill north-east of and ov...
Peru’s prehistory, climate, and terrain are the landscape upon which one of humankind’s longest migr...
Incan culture keeps indefatigably in attracting divergent scientific disciplins for research studies...
Le royaume néo-inca de Vilcabamba est communément assimilé à une cité perdue. Refuge où les derniers...
On the occasion of Peru’s Independence, the champions of the Creole nation elevated the Inca State I...
If mysteries were ranked, Machu Picchu would be on the top of the list. This Incan site, destination...
Machu Picchu in modern day Peru was built around 1450AD and has been named as one of the Seven Wonde...
The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is usually interpreted as a “royal estate” of the Inca ruler Pachac...
In 1438 the Inca Empire began its farmation and lasted until 1533 when Francisco Pizarra, takes poss...
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American h...
Machu Picchu, voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world’s most famous archaeolo...
Machu Picchu is a masterpiece of Incan civil engineering and architecture. It took much skill to bui...
This article examines the incorporation of Machu Picchu into twentiethcentury Peruvian history, thro...
The Incas formed the last and greatest empire that existed in the western hemisphere prior to the ar...
Machu Picchu: conservation problems at an inca site in the ceja de selva (cloud forest) of the easte...
Pre-Columbian Inca site in south-central Peru, 3555 m above sea-level on a hill north-east of and ov...
Peru’s prehistory, climate, and terrain are the landscape upon which one of humankind’s longest migr...
Incan culture keeps indefatigably in attracting divergent scientific disciplins for research studies...
Le royaume néo-inca de Vilcabamba est communément assimilé à une cité perdue. Refuge où les derniers...
On the occasion of Peru’s Independence, the champions of the Creole nation elevated the Inca State I...