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. "I believe ...

With suspension bridges and ramrod-straight roads laid out by ancient surveyors, the road functions as a kind of map of Inca ambitions, an eternal landmark imposed by a preliterate society that ...

Men aged 15 to 50 were required to donate a portion of their time to the empire’s various construction projects, everything from the Sapa Inca’s palace to roads, bridges, and storehouses.

In our days, this road system is still used in some sections by our native inhabitants of South America. It is a legacy of the Inca Empire that they have left to humanity an example of ...