Cusco, Peru Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The Cusco Valley and the Incas are synonymous in most people’s minds, but the area was populated well before they arrived on the scene and they simply built their empire on the toil and ingenuity of generations of previous cultures. The Killki culture, for instance, whose members learned to work the hard diorite and andesite stones that abound here and, although primarily agriculturists, built stone structures, dominated the scene around 700–800 AD. Some of these structures still survive, while others were incorporated into later Inca constructions – the sun temple of Koricancha, for … more »