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The building style is "late imperial Inca" thought to have been a sanctuary or temple inhabited by high priests and the "Virgins of the Sun" (chosen women). Excavations revealed that of the 135 skeletons found,109 were women. No signs of post Conquest occupation were unearthed. ... Machu Picchu was a complex of temples, palaces and observatories and was the home of the Inca ruling classes. From here, high priests made observations and calculations enabling them to chart the heavens - a knowledge which gave them both religious authority and temporal power. ... The Incas were master stone-masons, crafting walls out of massive blocks of granite so tight fitting that it is impossible to slip a piece of paper between them. But gaps have begun to appear in some of the constructions, hinting at movement beneath.

All around the spectacular razor-back ridge that the Incas built on, there are other warning signs: deep scars on the jungle-clad slopes left by landslides caused by natural erosion in the geologically young Andean mountains.
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The Sun Temple's exact reason for building remains unknown, this means that we don't know what gods were worshiped or what activities actually took place in it. According to some scientists, the worshiped deity could have been Wiracocha, the supreme god of the Incas. But this is just an assumption.

The Temple of the Sun is a remarkable creation, but here you will notice stones that are held together by mud, not just "stale" constructions (because, as we know, in general, the Incas did not use any sort of mortar to stick the stones together)
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Archaeologists believe that the city of Machu Picchu was constructed around the 13th and 15th centuries. Most evidence points out to the late 1400s, therefore, most specialists consider the construction to have been started by Inca ruler called Sapa Inca Pachacuti around the 1440s.
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The Incas wanted to create a remote city and they did a great job in choosing the location. It could have been a religious place or a hidden residence of rich Incas or just a city that was forgotten in time, no-one knows for sure, but what is almost certain that even while it was in use, Machu Picchu lay hidden even from most of the Incas, not just potential enemies in the area.

The construction of Machu Picchu was likely started by order of the Inca emperor Pachacuti, earth shaker, sometime during the mid-15th century. Inca legend relates that Pachacuti ordered the construction of Machu Picchu to celebrate the defeat of a powerful rival ethnic group called the Chancas.

The Incas were the first to build permanent structures in this region, which was unusual because they arrived at the tail end of 4,000 years of Andean civilization. 16th-century land titles discovered in the 1980's revealed that Machu Picchu was built by the Inca Pachacuti, founding father of the Inca Empire. But they do not tell us why he built it. One reasonable speculation is that this area provided access to coca plantations in the lower Urubamba valley. However, the fine architecture of Machu Picchu cannot be explained away simply as a coca collecting station

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