Drone Scans Reveal 1.5 Miles of Hidden Inca Roads in the Jungle Around Machu Picchu
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A team of researchers from the Andean Studies Center of the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with several research institutions in Peru, discovered more than 2.4 kilometers of roads, terraces and inca platforms, previously hidden under the vegetation too
Drone Scans Reveal 1.5 Miles of Hidden Inca Roads in the Jungle Around Machu Picchu
Learn how the discovery of roads, terraces, and platforms covered by the thick jungle of the Machu Picchu valley may hint at a larger infrastructure surrounding the cultural heritage site.
International archeologists revealed a network of roads and architectural structures belonging to the Inca civilization of the 15th century AD, buried inside the rain forests of Peru at an altitude of about 2,400 metres above sea level.
Pre-Columbian roads with a length of more than 2.5 km, along with terraces, platforms and circular structures, were discovered under dense vegetation near the famous Inca town Machu Picchu, in Peru.
Over 2.5 kilometers of previously unknown Inca roads have been discovered hidden beneath dense forest on Mount Yanantin near Machu Picchu. Read more here: Unknown Inca Roads Found Near Machu Picchu - Archeofili.
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