Revealing the Inca's Ingenious Solutions to Environmental Challenges

They invented many wind and percussion instruments. Drums and flutes were very popular. The panpipe was the most popular. A panpipe is a group of single pipes ... This work has revolutionized our view of the Inca empire and has provided a comparative database for understanding the nature of imperial expansion in ... This is what had brought me on the precipitous journey through the Peruvian highlands north of Lima, to the village of Huamantanga, with ... They have a heavy use of circles in their artistic designs and even created perfectly circular terraces. The Inca civilization grew powerful due to their unique use of technology ... The Inca had a calendar broken into 12 months of three weeks and 10 days ... ' Although, the Inca did not have a written language, by using quipus they were able to keep detailed records of all sorts of things across the empire. At the heart of these remarkable social and technological advances is the khipu (or quipu), a data recording device using knotted and colored ... The Machu Picchu discoveries, which include parts of a water system that ran through the area, are yielding new insights into Inca civilization ... The Inca had invented many technologies and art, some of which have contributed to modern life. Inca art is an excellent example of this. People have always been fascinated with the stars and tried to find meaning in what they saw in the sky. Astronomy was one of the most important studies for the ...