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The ancient Peruvian site of Pachacamac is known to have been an important pilgrimage destination for sick travelers seeking cures during the Inca period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. But the site had been occupied since as early as A.D. 200. Between roughly A.D. 900 and the beginning of the Inca period, the Ychsma culture inhabited Pachacamac. Archaeologists know primarily about Ychsma rulers, who built pyramidal palaces filled with simple, secular items related to weaving and anima
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