"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 ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

The last Sapa Inca to ascend the throne before Spanish contact, Huayna Capac, grandson of famed emperor Pachacuti, survived ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire ... of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not ...

The tunnel network, known as a Chinkana, stretches over 1,750 metres at a depth of up to 2.5 metres, and is evidence of Cusco’s centrality to the Inca Empire, the largest nexus of power in Pre ...

Cusco, once the administrative, political, and military capital of the powerful Inca Empire in the 15th century before being conquered by the Spanish, holds significant historical importance.

"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 ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire ... of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not ...