A road that is 3,000 years old and spans the length and breadth of the Andes mountain range in six countries finally got the recognition it was seeking as a heritage site protected by UNESCO, the ...

Qhapaq Ñan, also known as the Inca Road System, was based on two north-south roads that stretched down the west coast of ...

With suspension bridges and ramrod-straight roads laid out by ancient ... often unaware that it is just “43 kilometers of what was the 40,000-kilometer system” of the entire Inca Road, ...

The Inca Road, also known as Qhapaq Nan, represents the extensive communication, trade and defense network that once stretched over 30,000 kilometers connecting various parts of the Inca Empire.

BLACKSBURG — Four years’ worth of research on the ancient Inca Road of the Andes led by a Virginia Tech engineering professor will be part of a major Smithsonian Institution ...

Jorge Anhalzer's team discovered an ancient Inca road matching Valverde's map, possibly leading to the lost treasure. ... The article was written with the assistance of a news analysis system.

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

The Great Inca Road System is considered a remarkable feat of ancient engineering and a cultural heritage, and has been listed as Unesco World Heritage since 2014.

Halfway around the globe, the Inca Road running from Quito to Cuzco to Santiago covered over 5,000 miles, forming the nerve system of the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas. The Inca ...