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Machu Picchu, circa A.D. 1500
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Perched high in the Peruvian Andes, the royal retreat of Machu Picchu testifi es to the Inca’s masterful building skills with its precision-cut stones and perfectly placed cascades of terraces.
At Lake Titicaca, craft vendors wait for tourists on an island sacred to the Inca. Far left: The small bundle is how the Chachapoya people kept their dead. The conquering Inca were inspired to make a similar bundle for the larger mummy.
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Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued
kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.
AT MUSEO LEYMEBAMBA, CHACHAPOYAS, PERU