National Museum of the American Indian Webcasts the Inka Road Chats
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is hosting a series of public satellite broadcasts with a multinational team of impressive researchers, engineers and archaeologists in Peru on the origins and engineering of the Inka Road of South America.
One of civilization’s most impressive engineering achievements, the Inka Road (or Qhapaq nan, “The Royal Road”) was built without the use of iron, the wheel or stock animals. While much has been written about the Inka Empire as a whole, little has been published on how the Inka planned and built the road, which united the four regions of the ancient empire that encompassed large territories of present-day Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Chile.
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