Video description
Highway of An Empire: The Great Inca Road, an exhibition of over 35 striking photographs featuring the 25,000 miles of roads and trails that the Incas built six centuries ago in South America is now open at the American Museum of Natural History. In this series of stunning photographs, Highway of An Empire reveals the diversity of this road system—from broad paved highways to woven suspension bridges to beaten tracks through barren desert—and of the landscape through which it travels.
The Great Inca Road will be on view through September 2010. Source:
American Museum of Natural History.org.
Inca Road System
The Inca road system was the most extensive and highly advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
The network was based on two north-south roads, with numerous branches. The best known portion of the road system is the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Source:
Wikipedia, Inca Road System.
