Before the Spanish conquest of Peru ... of Cusco, and a network of roads from village to village were engineering feats of their time. But thousands of years before the height of Inca ingenuity ...

Cristóbal de Molina, a Spanish priest who lived in Cusco around 1565 and observed Inca traditions, described how the Inca burned leaves and blew coca fumes toward the sun—their main deity—and ...

But until then, the Inca Empire flourished. It didn't have writing, but it was an efficient military society, an ordered, productive and wealthy civilisation centred on Cusco in Peru. Its economy ...

Winding through ... the Cusco-Aguas Calientes railway and then follow the trail's zigzagging path toward the "lost city." The three-night journey pays off with the views from the Sun Gate at ...

CUSCO, Peru, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of "Light of the Sun: A Dialogue Between Ancient Shu and Inca Civilizations" is being held at the Inca Museum (Museo Inka) in Cusco, Peru, to showcase ...

Note: Some of the below destinations may be affected by the civil unrest in Peru ... Temple of the Sun to admire the exquisite Incan masonry and a granite stone that may have served as the ...