"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 ...

Archaeologists Use Radar Mapping and Sound Tests to Locate an Ancient Inca Underground Tunnel in Peru Archaeologists had confirmed there was an underground tunnel network beneath Cusco, Peru, from the ...

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 ...