Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achievements in history. A network more than 20,000 miles long, crossing mountains and tropical lowlands, rivers and deserts, the Great Inka Road linked Cusco, the administrative capital and spiritual center of the Inka world, to the farthest reaches of its empire.The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire explores the foundations of the Inka Road in earlier Andean cultures, technologies that made building the road possible, the cosmology and political organization of the Inka world, and the legacy of the Inka Empire during the colonial period and in the present day.
Closed December 25.
Dates:June 26, 2015 10:00 am to June 01, 2018 05:00 pm
Address:Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, District Of Columbia 20560, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:NMAI on the National Mall
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