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Hace 1 día · Machu Picchu, site of ancient Inca ruins located about 50 miles from Cuzco, Peru, in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains. One of the few major pre-Columbian ruins found nearly intact, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.
Hace 1 día · Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. [2] [3] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
Hace 4 días · Ollantaytambo is an archaeological gem in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, renowned for its well-preserved ruins and agricultural terraces. It is also notable as the site of one of the last successful defensive stands by Incan forces against the Spanish in 1536. With its commanding position over the valley, the fortress provided a strategic ...
Hace 2 días · The Inca Empire was preceded by two large-scale empires in the Andes: the Tiwanaku ( c.300 –1100 AD), based around Lake Titicaca, and the Wari or Huari ( c.600 –1100 AD), centered near the city of Ayacucho. The Wari occupied the Cuzco area for about 400 years.
Hace 3 días · Petra, ancient city, center of an Arab kingdom in Hellenistic and Roman times, the ruins of which are in southwest Jordan. The city was built on a terrace, pierced from east to west by the Wadi Musa (the Valley of Moses)—one of the places where, according to tradition, Moses struck a rock and water gushed forth.
Hace 18 horas · Persepolis ( / pərˈsɛpəlɪs /; Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, romanized: Pārsa; New Persian: تخت جمشید, romanized : Takht-e Jamshīd, lit. 'Throne of Jamshid ') was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire ( c. 550–330 BC ). It is situated in the plains of Marvdasht, encircled by southern Zagros mountains, Fars ...
Hace 5 días · Although the Maya were the most advanced pre-Columbian civilization in the hemisphere, they were never unified. Unlike the Aztec and Inca empires, their autonomous city-states remained independent, presaging the political fragmentation that would characterize Central America to the present day.
