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On a recent tour through the backlands of his mountainous country, Peru's Premier Pedro Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of...
Built on a saddle between two peaks, Machu Picchu is surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua...
The hacienda is called Sullupucyo, which in Quechua, the language of the Incas who ruled the Andes for 300 years, means "place of the fountain." It sits in an 11,000-ft.-high intermont basin 300 miles southeast of Lima, and covers 15,000 acres. The owner is Abelardo Luna...
The question has long agitated Americanists-the scholars and experts who specialize in the prehistory of the Western Hemisphere and who explore the origin and development of such high civilizations as the Mayans and the Incas.
What happens if he does not get help? Beltrán has seen the pathetic silhouettes of the Incas' descendants in their ponchos, black pigtails and felt hats, herding Peru's 3,500,000 llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance...