By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile.

到了16世纪，南美洲的印加人统治着一个帝国，它沿着太平洋海岸和安第斯高地，从现在的厄瓜多尔一直延伸到智利中部。

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Lost city of the Incas remains a mystery.

城市Incas的失踪依然成谜。

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From the Incas to the present day, humanity has made little impression here.

从印加时期至今，人类在此几乎没有留下任何足迹。

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This stone ruins site,he says, speaks about the genius and wisdom of the Incas.

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They captured a lot of the Incas and eventually wiped them out.

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Light was important to the Incas,too,says Torrey, and in another of his favorite photos, inside the Temple of the Sun, he captures the moment when a beam of sunlight marks the changing season.

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Then, like the Incas, Indian field hockey vanished from the podium, in 2008 missing the Olympics altogether.

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Babbling waterways, branching from the nearby rivers, feed the still-flowing irrigation system that the Incas designed, their handiwork admired to this day.

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Quechua-speaking people live in and around the national park, practicing a community-based agrarian life that has remained little-changed since the time of the Incas.

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