But in the fertile, well-watered valley around Cusco, Inca farmers stood their ground. Instead of splintering apart and warring among themselves, Inca villages united into a small state capable of ...

guided by local farmers, navigated the dense tropical forests of southern Peru and came across the ruins of an abandoned Inca city. Bingham’s work would soon kickstart a decades-long journey to ...

this region was the heart of the Inca Empire. While many things have changed, the altitude of this region and the biodiversity of its ecosystem have remained the same, allowing farmers today to ...