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July 9, 2019
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This entry was originally part of the post titled Inka-dink-khipu because it was relevant to our bus ride from Ollantaytambo to Cusco. As I went through the process of creating shorter posts, this felt like the most natural point to …
July 9, 2019
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Let’s start today’s post with a bit of a thought experiment and see if we can, if not upend, at least unbalance a conventional belief. Here’s the subject: For more than five centuries, based mainly on contemporary reporting, historical and …
July 5, 2019
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Some technical specifications. There was not great uniformity in the Inkan road system. For example, not all of the roads were paved with stone but those of importance such as at the main gate of Machu Picchu almost always were. …