Inca architecture

The Island Of The Moon at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia is home to the reconstructed Inca complex of the Virgins Of The Sun who were the highest feminine aspect in Inca society. This was their very special focal point and center. Please enjoy the video below about this very pleasant place that quadcopter Horus recently...

In the 15th century, the Inca drastically expanded the boundaries of their territory. This growth has often led scholars to seek to understand just how the Inca were able to expand their empire so quickly. In this Opening Up the Textbook lesson, students examine four sources to explore different accounts on what aided the Inca in their rise.

The central buildings of Machu Picchu use the classical Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. The Incas were among the best stone masons the world has seen, and many junctions in the central city are so perfect that it is said not even a knife blade fits between the stones. Terraced Fields of Machu Picchu Some Inca buildings were…

Photo about Wiracocha statue in Calca at the peruvian Andes on Cuzco Peru. Image of peru, religion, calca - 35143801

The Incas finely crafted this stone alcove in a wall at Machu Picchu, a magnificent archeological site in the Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes mountains, Peru, South America. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 AD as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (14381472). Spaniards passed in the river valley below but never discovered Machu Picchu during their conquest of the Incas 1532-1572. The outside world was unaware of the "Lost City of the Incas" until revealed by American historian Hiram…