Machu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest.

马丘比丘建于1450年前后，与印加王国在相同高度上，在之后的不到100年时间里，西班牙的入侵导致了帝国的瓦解，这座古城也成为废墟，遭到了遗弃。

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The famed capital of the ancient Inca Empire, Cusco has served as a travelers' mecca for hundreds of years.

库斯科是著名的古印加帝国的首都，几百年来一直是旅游胜地。

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The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.

印加抄写员们利用结绳文字记载辽阔印加帝国大量财产的资料。

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It was a voice so sonorously deep, yet so delicately controlled, that it seemed to issue forth from the Pachamama herself, the earth goddess of the Quechua-speaking people of the Inca empire from whom Ms Sosa partially descended.

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The construction of this amazing city, set out according to a very rigorous plan, comprises one of the most spectacular creations of the Inca Empire.

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Start off high and cool in the city of Cuzco (UNESCO World Heritage Site), former capital of the ancient Inca Empire and today the undisputed archaeological king of the Americas.

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