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The 1,310ft-tall peak shoots up from Sierra del Divisor National Park in eastern Peru, near the border with Brazil. Its shape is strikingly similar to the pyramids of Giza - with broad, flat sides ...

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Presumably these seekers after “healing”, that most nebulous of new-age notions, are not aware that “Inca spirituality ... a heavenly realm inhabited by gods, the earthly realm of humans ...

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If true, it would be the oldest urban center in the Americas and among the most ancient in all the world ... about the long-mysterious origins of the Inca, the civilization that once stretched ...