With suspension bridges and ramrod-straight roads laid out by ancient surveyors, the road functions as a kind of map of Inca ambitions, an eternal landmark imposed by a preliterate society that ...

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 ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...