From iol.co.za: Inca ruins uncovered near frosty peaks.
Posted on August 23, 2005 04:22 PM. Filed under: history & archaeology.A Czech scientific expedition has claimed to have found in the Andes mountains of Bolivia the ruins of an Inca city at the highest altitude recorded to date, according to the Czech expert who led the research team.
Consisting of several sites, the Inca settlement near Lake Titicaca extended for about 10 square kilometres at an altitude between 3 000m and 4 000m, said Ivo Bartecek, a Czech specialist in Ibero-American studies.
"Up higher, there are only glaciers," said Bartecek, who is also head of the philosophy faculty at the University of Olomouc in the eastern Czech Republic.
The expedition of two Czech scientists and two researchers spent three weeks during the South American winter exploring the region.
The team's main goal was to prove the hypothesis that Inca and pre-Inca civilisations existed in the highest possible regions of the Andean mountain range. [continue]