Day 92: Lost city

Cuzco was the capital of the Inca Empire, which once covered parts of what today we regard as Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and Colombia. Huge.

Who knows what the city looked like when the Spanish arrived, because much of it was destroyed and the Europeans built a beautiful new city, but the Inca foundations remain - a symbol that the older civilisation could not be eradicated.

Historians believe that if Cuzco was excavated, the remains of the Inca capital would be found underneath.

THINGS I DIDN´T KNOW BEFORE TODAY
1. The Inca language of Quechua is still widely spoken today
2. Although the Incas did not have a writing system, they recorded events using a knots system called quipu
3. But the Spanish destroyed much of their census material so much remains unknown