Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...
Every June, communities in the Cusco region, capital of the Inca Empire, join efforts in making ropes out of q'oya plants to renovate the Q'eswachaka bridge, the last of its kind, keeping alive a work ...
Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun, then built a church atop the Inca walls. Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s long been rumored that a ...
Explore the breathtaking city of Cusco, Peru, with stunning drone footage capturing its rich Inca heritage, colonial ...
Peru’s culture ministry has announced a new subterranean mapping initiative that will allow archaeologists to explore pre-Columbian Cusco without picking up any shovels, the AFP reported. In the 16th ...
THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...
It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan empire. Now, thanks to archival texts and ground-penetrating radar, ...
The dug-out passages may follow the exact path of the Inca capital’s aboveground roads Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun ...