A Glimpse into History Machu Picchu's history is as intriguing as its breathtaking scenery. Built in the 15th century under ...

The Builders takes you behind the construction tape to reveal the individuals responsible for history’s greatest architectural works. Here is the Incan emperor Pachacuti’s story.

However, Inca oral history recorded by the Spanish, suggests that the expansion began in earnest during the reign of the emperor Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the son of Viracocha Inca, who reigned ...

A mysterious stone statue, possibly the portrait of the great Inca emperor Pachacuti, once stood in Machu Picchu, according to archival research. Likely placed against a round stone wall on one of ...

Machu Picchu is believed to have been built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth ruler of the Inca, in the mid-1400s. An empire builder, Pachacuti initiated a series of conquests that would ...

Machu Picchu is a 15th century Incan citadel, believed to have been built for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–72). It is located in modern-day Peru's Cusco region, on a 7,970 feet (2,430 metre ...

The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler. According to a 1586 chronicle by the Spanish cleric Miguel Cabello Valboa, Pachacuti reigned from 1438 to 1471 and his son Tupac Inca ...

“Traditional chronologies tell a story about how Emperor Pachacuti slowly started to expand the Inca Empire and then built Machu Picchu,” Fehren-Schmitz explained. “But in this study, we see that ...

Well, it seems likely that Pachacuti and Tupac Inca Yupanqui were instrumental in the great expansion of the empire. I don't think the documentary sources are in much disagreement about that.

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