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Unraveling Inca Mysteries in the Peruvian Andes:
The 16th-century European conquest of Peru swept away a five-thousand–year flowering of civilization in the Andes, leaving little trace in human memory. Ever since I first set foot in Peru, 42 years ago, I have found this fact intolerable. Many scholars share this view, so the dynamic field of investigation into the Andean past produces exciting discoveries almost every year. And the more we learn, the more astonishing these ancient peoples appear. The last of their line, the Incas, are the ones we know most about today -- yet they, too, remain an enigma in many ways. They modified the landscape for ritual purposes on a scale so vast -- indeed, unique in human history -- that we don’t even have a name in English for what they were doing. Vilcabamba is the place where the greatest intact evidence of this activity has survived. This remote area, whose gateway was Machu Picchu, has been the location of my investigations. I strongly believe that this region holds the key to a deeper understanding of the Inca world.
