[PeterPrinciple]

Like other royal estates, Machu Picchu was home not only to royalty and other elite members of Inca society, but also to attendants and workers, many of whom lived in the estate year-round. These residents did not necessarily come from the local area, though it is only in this study that researchers have been able to confirm, with DNA evidence, the diversity of their backgrounds...

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otherwise known as slaves..........................

[philman_36]

otherwise known as slaves..........................

Bad Teacher: You read to the end of the book before everybody again, didn't you, Peter.
Where are your principles?

{;^)

[bobbo666]

Yah. Why enslave your near neighbors when you can attack a farther away neighbor and bring back them as slaves?

This was done since we came down out of the trees, fer Chissakes!

[Steve_Seattle]

"otherwise known as slaves"

That is the first thing that occurred to me, but since the Incas have been so idealized by the modern left, that possibility will probably not be considered. And how much of a revelation is it that the royal family would have had "workers and attendants"?

[bgill]

Every group, race, creed or just because they didn’t run fast enough was enslaved at some point in history.

[Honest Nigerian]

Good catch!!
It was obvious how they had so carefully parsed the sentences to as to avoid the “S” word.
“S” word! OMG!