In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel, scientist Jared Diamond argues that the answer is geography ... their advantage in defeating the Incas. In the battle of Cajamarca ...

and it is believed that the platform served a very important purpose in the political and sacred symbolic geography of the Inca Empire. From the late 1990s onwards archaeologists from Peru ...

Archaeological sites buried under a former imperial capital in Peru will be studied by experts to map out relics hidden below the historic city. The study of Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca ...