Machu Picchu was only one of many cities, provincial supply centers and seats of government that were connected by one of the most astounding accomplishments of its time, the Inca Road.

This section, about 1,100 miles northwest of Cuzco, is part of the “Great Road,” or Capac Ñan, as the Inca knew it—the grandest engineering achievement of the pre-Hispanic Americas ...

The expedition's efforts resulted in the discovery of an ancient Inca road that coincides with the descriptions of the historical map known as the "derrotero de Valverde," which is believed to ...

But they were impressed – the thing that impressed the most the Spanish people were the Inca roads. And Cieza de Leon, a Spanish writer of that period, he said that there was nothing comparable ...

The fact that many high elevation sacrificial sites are located near trans-mountain roads suggests that sacrifices were also made in conjunction with the expansion of the Inca civilization itself.

In order to move armies and people quickly and efficiently around this landscape, the Inca needed roads. When the landscape proved too inhospitable for stone, they used straw, constructing ...