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New DNA analysis reveals that people from as far as Amazonia once lived and worked in the Inca royal estate.

From cable car to funicular, the best short trips concentrate astonishing landscapes into a day or an hour, and require none of the major planning and effort needed to make long journeys.

New DNA analysis reveals that people from as far as ancient Amazonia once lived and worked in the Inca royal estate.

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Machu Picchu is now an iconic tourist destination in Peru – but it was once a royal palace that pulled people from all corners of the Inca empire.

DNA analysis, conducted largely at UC Santa Cruzs Paleogenomics Lab and led by Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, suggests that servants at Machu Picchu were a uniquely diverse group, and the geographic extent of ancestral origins may even challenge historical narratives about how and when the Inca Empire expanded.

A new DNA analysis of human remains buried at Machu Picchu yields information about servants to the Incas.

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The first investigation of the genomic diversity of individuals buried at Machu Picchu and adjacent places around Cusco, the Inca capital finds that the mitmas - slaves - and members of the empire who were forced to serve elites and lived, worked, and died at Machu Picchu, the renowned 15th century Inca palace in southern Peru, were a diverse commu

Ancient DNA from Machu Picchu in Peru has for the first time been analysed to find out where its people came from in the Inca Empire.