NOVA: What was your first impression of Machu Picchu? Ken Wright: When I arrived in 1994, my first visit ever, I was blown away by the view of Machu Picchu itself and also by the surrounding territory ...

Can modern engineers learn best practices from ancient road builders? Modern road construction often relies on modifying the landscape by blasting through rock, which can result in landslides. Because ...

I saw the evidence of Inca engineering skill in the tour that took me to Machu Picchu.Only in hindsight, when I was preparing to write about it, did I begin to fully appreciate the Inca Empire's ...

Inca Engineers Inc. continues to hire workers, partly because of a strategic decision in 2009 to add a hydroelectric division. The company is beefing up that division as it vies for hydroelectric work ...

Discovering Moray -- Civil engineering planning -- Inca technology -- Hydrology -- Hydraulic engineering -- Construction engineering -- Agriculture -- The Moray agricultural research station theory -- ...

British explorer, author, and independent scholar Peter Frost could be called a 21st-century Hiram Bingham; in 2001 and 2002, he led National Geographic Society-sponsored expeditions into the remote ...