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.

“One day, the Inka, with his golden sling, ordered rocks and pebbles to leave his place, to move in an orderly manner, form walls, and open the great road for the Inca Empire… So was created ...

The Inca Road was built by engineers and laborers working with bronze and stone tools and llamas. At the height of the Inca Empire, it integrated nearly ten million people from a hundred nations.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Archaeologists also found a network of roads and trails used to transport stone from the quarries to other parts of the Inca empire, the release said. The Qhapaq ...

In our days, this road system is still used in some sections by our native inhabitants of South America. It is a legacy of the Inca Empire that they have left to humanity an example of ...

ahead of the construction of a new road. One archaeologist described the graves as being "middle class... Inca". "These are local inhabitants... belonging to the period of the Inca Empire, between ...

Jucul sits at an altitude of 11,800 feet, six hours north of Lima on axle-rattling mountain roads. The village is ... open the lost history of the Inca empire, which was, at its peak, the largest ...