In the late 1400s, the Inca Empire conquered the indigenous Peruvians of the Chachapoyas region and gained the power to spread the version of history they saw fit. According to the Inca accounts, the ...

Archaeologists uncover the first case of deliberate mummification of an Inca child, shedding new light on ancient Andean rituals.

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. While today we use the term Inca to refer to all people who were ruled under the empire – from ...

Experts have shed new light on how the Inca civilization used “trophy heads” to maintain control over conquered peoples. At its height in the 16th century, the Inca Empire spanned modern-day Peru, as ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That's what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature Summary Astronomy in the Inca Empire was a robust and ...