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Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Johan Reinhard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

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The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous
Machu Picchu
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Johan Reinhard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-31 - Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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Machu Picchu, recently voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the mos
Sacred Mountains of the World
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Edwin Bernbaum
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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From the Andes to the Himalayas, mountains have an extraordinary power to evoke a sense of the sacred. In the overwhelming wonder and awe that these dramatic fe
Inca Sacred Space
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Frank M. Meddens
Categories: Andes Region
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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A collection of conference papers which present the principles and functions of ushnus, Inca sacred spaces, through history, archaeology and anthropology.
The Ice Maiden
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Johan Reinhard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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This book takes armchair adventurers and archaeological enthusiasts not only to the excavation, but back through Peruvian history as it revisits the 1995 discov
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