After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of ...

Hiram Bingham, a professor of South American history at Yale University, was visiting Peru as part of the Yale Peruvian Expedition. Fascinated with the idea of exploring Inca cities, Bingham set ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...

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 ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

The Inca Garcilaso Medal is celebrated in Miami, honoring cultural heritage, art, and education while recognizing influential ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... until word of her misdeeds reached the Great Inca’s ears. He ordered that she be sacrificed ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...