ARKY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Machu Picchu, Smallpox, Pachacuti
15 Nov 2015
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They didn"t have iron tools or the wheel, yet they created such masterpieces. People are figuring out more and more about the inca today by old skeletons found. 8000 feet on a narrow ridge in the andes machu picchu. More than 200 structures, built with cut stone. At its highest point, you get a full view of machu picchu. Throughout the city, stones are present which were being moved when the city was abandoned. Inca were surefooted and were not afraid of heights. Inca ruled for only 100 years, then they were decimated by disease, then civil war, then the. No written record of where it was located though. 350 years later hiram bingham starts searching. Bingham reached the top of a ridge and found machu picchu. Bingham thought he found the virgins of the sun. The most beautiful girls were chosen for this. They served the inca emperor for the rest of their lives.
