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Mysterious 5,200 Holes in Peru May Have Served as a Marketplace and Giant Ledger for the Inca Empire
In southern Peru, a long line of holes runs across a barren hillside. The “Band of Holes,” or Monte Sierpe (“Serpent Mountain ...
New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.
New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...
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This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music
The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu ...
Researchers used drones to get another look at the "Band of Holes" along Monte Sierpe, and their work suggests that the Inca ...
What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen to ...
A cotton and agave fiber Inca khipu is seen at an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images) The Inca ...
The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...
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