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The Question:
Did Inca royalty really marry their sisters?
The Answer:
The short answer is, yes, it is true that in late times of the Inca Empire, Inca royalty did marry their sisters. The long answer and the reasoning for this incest is very much disputed and, even more so, interesting.
The city of Chan Chan was built out of adobe (or bricks of dirt). Covering an area of as much as 28 square kilometres, it is the most expansive adobe city in the world.
Built by the Chimu people in about 1300AD, Chan Chan is close by to the modern day city of Trujillo, an area rich in pre-Columbian history and home to many thousands of years of civilisation.
Much like Tutankhamen in Egypt, the Lord of Sipan was a mummy discovered with immense quantities of precious metals and stones in his tomb.
The pieces that the lord was buried with are of exquisite quality, with intricately designed earrings, masks, necklaces, bracelets and all sorts of ornaments crafted of gold, silver, copper and semi-precious stones. These take on beautiful forms representing animals, spiders and ghostly faces.
