Hiram Bingham called Machu Picchu “the most important ruin discovered in South America since the Spanish ... the road functions as a kind of map of Inca ambitions, an eternal landmark imposed ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to ... Valverde's guide and a related map, made by a man named Atanasio Guzman.

And if you see the extension of the Inca Empire, if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs ... action was placed in the higher areas of South America. The national coat of arms, from the ...