Images from World History:

Peru: The Inka Empire (15-16th c. A.D.)

  1. Inka fortress storage building, overlooking modern Ollantaytambo. Photograph by Constance Frisbee Houde, Albany, NY.
 
  2. Peruvian highland mummy. A male wearing a headdress of imported feathers.
 
  3. A quipu fragment said to contain lines from the Inka poem, Beautiful Princess.
 

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