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2015-09-08T17:56:16.000Z
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Video Title:
The Great Inka Road: Hawkaypata—The Plaza at the Center of Cusco
Description:
Hawkaypata, the plaza at the heart of Cusco, was the center of Inka ceremonial and political power. The four suyus—or provinces—of the Inka Empire, came together at Cusco, and roads to the four suyus originated at Hawkaypata. The speakers in this video are Donato Amado Gonzales, a doctoral candidate at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a member of Peru's National Academy of History, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta, a leading archaeologist of Andean cultures and co-curator of the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire." Produced for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018.
Video Duration:
1 min 9 sec
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