Photo: Ancient Temple Discovered Among Inca Ruins

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The remains of an ancient temple, pictured here, have been discovered outside the ruins of a stone fortress known as Sacsayhuaman near Cusco, Peru, archaeologists say.

The site is thought to have been built by a pre-Inca culture called the Killke around 1100 A.D. and later occupied and expanded by the Inca.

REUTERS/Andina Agency/Handout (PERU)

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