It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height; its giant walls and terraces seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock cliffs.(它可能是印加帝國全盛時期最輝煌的城市建筑，那巨大的城墻和梯田好像是在連綿的懸崖絕壁上自然形成的一樣。)

The Inca Empire was discovered by a Spanish conquistador called Francisco Pizarro, accompanied by about 169 Spanish soldiers.(印加帝國被一個名叫弗朗西斯科·皮薩羅的西班牙征服者發現，隨同他的還有約169名西班牙士兵。)

The famed capital of the ancient Inca Empire, Cusco has served as a travelers' mecca for hundreds of years.(庫斯科是著名的古印加帝國的首都，幾百年來一直是旅游勝地。)

The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.(印加抄寫員們利用結繩文字記載遼闊印加帝國大量財產的資料。)

Machu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest.(馬丘比丘建于1450年前后，與印加王國在相同高度上，在之后的不到100年時間里，西班牙的入侵導致了帝國的瓦解，這座古城也成為廢墟，遭到了遺棄。)