(What should be) The jewel in Cusco’s crown

As the ninth Inka, Pachakutiq was not a builder of empire alone. He was also a builder – or at least he oversaw numerous important construction projects. Although excavations haven’t conclusively shown when construction began on Qorikancha, most archaeologists believe …

Cusco’s sexy woman and other ruins – part 2

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 …

Cusco’s sexy woman and other ruins

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 …