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  • The Inca royal ceremonial site, Choquequirao sits high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.  This is considered to be a sister center to Machu Picchu and was mapped and investigated by Hiram Bingam in 1909, two years before he found the latter.  It has recently been renovated by the Peruvian government and is becoming an adventure travel destination.
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  • Huge, intricately carved stone blocks near Cuzco, Peru are all that remains of Sacsayhuaman, once a massive Inca temple  carved by the Inca.
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  • Rebuilt structures of unclear usage dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Mysterious terraces and reconstructed buildings dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Huge, intricately hewn stone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, an massive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, that was the site of one of their last decisive battles with Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors.
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  • A traveler walks by huge, intricately hewn stone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, an Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, that was the site of one of their last decisive battles with Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors.
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  • Mysterious terraces and reconstructed buildings dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Mysterious terraces and reconstructed buildings dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • The ancient Inca ceremonial site, Choquequirao sits high on a ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • The Inca royal ceremonial site, Choquequirao sits high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.  This is considered to be a sister center to Machu Picchu and was mapped and investigated by Hiram Bingam in 1909, two years before he found the latter.  It has recently been renovated by the Peruvian government and is becoming an adventure travel destination.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. National Geographic archaeology expedition on cliffside trail hewn by Inca laborers, en route to site on Cerro Victoria. Nevado Sacsayrayoc background.
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  • Machu Picchu, an Inca ruin below Mount Huayna Picchu.
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  • Machu Picchu, an Inca ruin below Mount Huayna Picchu.
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  • Tree roots entangle Inca ruins in the upper Amazon cloud forests.
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  • Visitors wander through ruins of Sacsayhuamán, an extensive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, where one of their last great battles against Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors occurred.
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  • Visitors wander through ruins of Sacsayhuamán, an extensive Inca ruin near Cuzco, Peru, where one of their last great battles against Pizzaro and the Spanish conquistadors occurred.
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  • Adventure travelers hike along terraces at Choquequirao. an ancient Inca royal ceremonial site located high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Mysterious, reconstructed terraces, temples and other buildings dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Ancient Inca ruins at Choquequirao, a remote sacred site in the Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Cloud forests surround remote Choquequirau, an ancient Inca royal center in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba, not far from Machu Picchu.  This was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1909, two years before Bingham found the latter.  Only recently has it begun to be restored or visited.
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  • Mysterious Inca structures spread below Mount Huayna Picchu
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  • Ancient structures built by mysterious means by Inca masons.
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  • PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.  Horse pack train on ancient Inca Trail passes through "halca" grasslands above Unamen village in Peru's Cordillera Central, in upper Amazon headwaters. (Andes Mountains)
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  • Gordon Wiltsie stands beside an ancient temple built in a Chachapoyan (pre-Inca) ceremonial site that he and archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche found lost in the upper Amazon cloud forests of Peru's Cordillera Central.
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  • Terraces and ancient buildings at Machu Picchu.
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  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
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  • Stone walls of Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-date the Inca.
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  • Stone wall at Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-dates the Inca.
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  • An  trekker looks at a Chachapoyan snake petroglyph atop Mount Shubet.
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  • PERU. PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) "nail stone" sculpture at previously undiscovered city in the upper Amazon cloud forests. (Found in 1999).
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  • An archaeologist inspects an ancient Chachapoyan circular house.  at Talape, Peru.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard meets in a tent below 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie and Madison Roswell pass giant agave plant in bottom of Quebrada Yanama, site of an ancient Inca commercial center.
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  • After sleeping atop a small mountain where a National Geographic expedition found remains of an Inca ceremonial site, one of the young assistants stretches as he greets the day breaking over fog filled canyons and ridges of the rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba range of Peru's Andes Mountains.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie investigates mouth of an old silver mine on Cerro Victoria, probably first worked by the Inca.
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  • Members of a National Geographic archaeology expedition overlook Cerro Victoris (in shadow), an obscure promontory deep in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba, where soon they would find evidence of a long-past Inca commercial center and ceremonial site.
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  • A horse treads cautiously up ancient, hand carved steps made by the Inca on a trail in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba, part of the Andes Mountins near Macchu Picchu.
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  • A horseman leads his mount through a rough section of northern Inca Trail, descending from "halca" grasslands of Peru's  Cordillera Cental into the vast Amazon cloud forest below.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Cirrus clouds swirl over 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where an expedition found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. In the background are other lonely mountains and volcanoes of the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard meets with his team during an expedition to 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard establishes a base camp below 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where the team later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An Argentine Unimog vehicle climbs the lower slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, as part of an expedition where that found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Inca shawl pins found at Qoriwayrachina archaeological site on Cerro Victoria were probably made from locally mined silver.
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  • Cusco, Peru. Ben Wiltsie walks by huge, intricately hewn stone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, an Inca ruin that was the site of one of their last decisive battles with the Spanish conquistadores.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie atop Cerro Victoria, an Inca ceremonial site, on a foggy dawn below Nevado Sacsarayoc.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie wakens atop Cerro Victoria, an ancient Inca ceremonial site below Nevado Sacsarayoc.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. National Geographic archaeology expedition camp below Cerro Victoria, site of long-vanished Inca city.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Lupines grow in front of Inca ruins in long-vanished city of Corihuayrachina on Cerro Victoria. Nevada Corihuayrachina background.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Archaeology expedition laborers excavate Inca burial sites on Cerro Victoria, a once-thriving commercial hub.
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  • A trekker on an Inca trail views Nevado Sacsayrayoc in the Cordillera Vilcabamba
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie on ancient Inca trail leading to silver mines and former city of Corihuayrachina on Cerro Victoria.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie examines ancient doorway at Vitcos, last stronghold of Manco Inca, who held out two decades after Spanish conquest of Cuszco.
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  • Entrance to huge Chachapoyan fort, predating Peru's Inca culture.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. Behind are arid mountains and valleys of the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where the team later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.  Behind are lonely mountains of the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • ARGENTINA. Archaeologist carries load up Volcan Lllullullaico, third highest peak in South America, where expedition would discover world's highest Inca mummy.
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  • Argentine Archaeologist Dr. Constanza Cerruti sifts through site of an Inca rest house below   22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where she helped to find the world’s highest mummies from an ancient sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard approaches 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Cusco, Peru. Visitors wander through ruins of Sacsayhuamán, an extensive Inca ruin where one of the last great battle against the Spainsh occurred.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Travelers examine sacred rock at Vitcos, last stronghold of Manco Inca.
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  • An archaeology team let by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • A traveler stands by fortress walls at Kuelap, a pre-Inca stronghold.
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