Colonial Architecture Project

Photos of European colonial architecture around the world

by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada

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ca. AD 500-950. Pre-Inca cemetery with group elite family tombs (chullpas) on the shores of Lake Umayo. Probably by the Aymara-speaking Qulla people, who were conquered by the Inca in the 15th century.

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