Monthly Archives: May 2019

After five centuries, where’s the earthquake damage? This is a reasonable question to pose in an area where earthquakes occur with some regularity. The answer lies in the ways these builders showed far more sophistication and ingenuity than it required …

Spelling is one of the challenges of replicating names from a language that, if it had an orthography, would still have been alien to the system we use in the west which is why you might have seen and might …

Worthy of Spain. It’s been estimated that in 1532 when the the Spaniards arrived, 40,000 people inhabited the city of Cusco proper with another 200,000 in the surrounding district. They entered a planned city filled with typical Inka architecture – …

I ended the previous post with some random facts about the Inkas – a culture we’ll get to know more about over the coming days. But for now, as our bus draws ever nearer to the center of the Inkan …

The oldest city in the Americas. In recounting this trip, I’ve twice touched upon the subject of Huanca Prieta the controversial site north of Lima that appears to upend the conventional assertion about the time the first humans arrived in …