The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; ... Animals in the Andean area -- The Inca Empire at Pizarro's arrival -- Civil war: fall of the Inca ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

The heaps of khipus emerged from garbage bags in the back of the tiny, one-room museum—clumps of tangled ropes the size of beach balls. Sabine Hyland smiled as she gazed down at them and said ...

Though it is the best-known remnant of the Inca Empire today, Machu Picchu was only inhabited for roughly 100 years, built as a royal mountain retreat and abandoned in 1572.

The Inca Empire in South America was known for its huge reserves of gold and silver and its highly crafted stone architecture. ... Their elaborate cities, carved out of stone, also draw praise.

The lofty ambitions of the Inca. Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.

At its height in the 16th century, the Inca Empire spanned modern-day Peru, as well as parts of Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile. ... revealing what some of the drawings actually depict.

A deceptively simple feat of agricultural engineering helped the Inca to build the largest empire in South American history. In the 15th and early 16th Centuries, a small island in Lake Titicaca ...