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Lords of Cuzco a history and description of the Inca people in their final days With drawings from Huaman Poma

pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...
Los Angeles Times

Discovery Sheds Light on Incan Royal City

Virtually in the shadows of the fabled Machu Picchu and high in the cloud forests of Peru, a British-American team has rediscovered a complex of structures that apparently provided astronomical, ...
UrbanDaddy

Mayan Calendars, Incan Tater Tots and Natalie Portman

We got a full tank of gas. Half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark. And it’s the weekend. The Mayan calendar foresaw this. Well, we assume it did, anyway. Lakeview’s tiny Mayan-themed restaurant opened a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Earliest and Greatest Engineers Were the Incas

In American universities, engineering students typically learn that military and civil engineering originated in Europe, and they study the European tradition almost exclusively—with maybe a glance ...