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Pachacuti and the Founding of Machu Picchu
The legendary story of the Inca ruler Pachacuti has been told and retold for generations, and repeated as part of the tours of Machu Picchu . It is believed that he rose to power thanks to a vision involving Inti, the Sun god, who inspired him to defend the city of Cusco from the Chanca. The first Inca ruler with imperialistic aspirations for an Inca Empire he has been recognized as the creator of “the most powerful empire in pre-Colombian America,” explains an Antiquity press release.
Pachacuti has also been credited with building Machu Picchu , located to the north of Cusco. In fact, the ancient ruins are often described as having been his private estate. The Inca citadel was chosen as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World in a contest organized by the New7Wonders Foundation back in 2007, alongside Petra and the Great Wall of China. It was famously built using differently-shaped polished stones which fit together lik
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It’s all fun and games until history is erased by Mwangi Githahu Image: AMAZON
• One is expelled from the ruling party and then gradually turned into a non-person
There s a meme that does the rounds on Facebook regularly. It purports to show how people unfriended others in the era before social media.
It shows a group photograph with one face torn or scratched out. At first I thought it was uproariously funny, but now after umpteen views, I find the meme slightly offensive.
If a picture speaks a thousand words, as someone said, then distorting the photo is erasing some of the words. It’s like reading a novel with a page from the middle missing.