"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 ...

"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 ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife ... An illustration shows the tunnel's location near the fortress. Association of Archaeologists of Peru At ...

The discovery highlights the advanced engineering capabilities of the Inca civilization. The chincana served as a communication system, linking key religious and administrative sites in Cusco.