Dinesh's photos with the keyword: 1491

When I was standing on the edge of this higher place, I heard a low voiced road, as if asking me to keep away. I raced back to the car which was about 50 feet from this point!

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"Would you like to hold a four-thousand-year-old textile?"

Models of barracks at Valley Forge, Philly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge

Image from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa

Inka masonry amazed the conquistadors, who could not understand how they put together such enormous stones without mortar or draft animals. And it was astonishingly durable -- the U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham photographed the citadel of Machu Pichu in 1913, and found it in near-perfect condition despite four centuries of neglect. HWW -- Have a great week

Highland Peru, captured in this image of the Inka ruin Winay Wayna by the indigenous Andean photographer Martin Chambi (1891-1973), is o\the only place on earth where people living at such inhospitable altitudes repeatedly created materially sophisticated societies

Curious villagers surrounding the great Olmec head excavated in 1939 by archeologist Mathew Stirling in the Mexican state of Veracruz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_colossal_heads