Smithsonian exploring great engineering feat that was the Inka Road
*Anyone traveling to Washington D.C. over the summer? This should be on your list of to do’s. VL
The great engineering feat that was the Inka Road, a road network 24,000 miles long and more than 500 years old, is being featured at the first bilingual exhibit mounted by the National Museum of the American Indian, affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
[pullquote][tweet_dis]The exposition entitled “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” will be free to the public through June 1, 2018 in Washongton DC.[/tweet_dis][/pullquote]The Inka road network, built without the use of the wheel, iron tools or draft animals, represents a project that, like the mountaintop citadel of Machu Picchu, has survived earthquakes and torrential rains better than many more modern construction projects.
The exposition entitled “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” will be free to the public through June 1, 2018 in the nation’s capital and will later travel to the six nations through which the road network runs: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
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