The Inca Empire was a vast empire that flourished in the Andean region of South America from the early 15th century A.D. up until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Even after the conquest ...

In 1911, local farmers in Peru led American explorer Hiram Bingham to the ruins of Machu Picchu, an Incan city built high in the Andes Mountains, introducing the outside world to this ...

The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler. According to a 1586 chronicle by the Spanish cleric Miguel Cabello Valboa, Pachacuti reigned from 1438 to 1471 and his son Tupac Inca ...

The Incas governed the 10 million people in their realm with what amounted to a federal system. Power was centred in Cusco, in the south of what is now Peru, but spread through several levels of ...

Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest. June 19, 2007 More than 17 years ago. By Marc Kaufman. The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, ...

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and was the largest state in the world in the 1400s. Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes ...

The first known American to see Choquequirao was the young Yale history lecturer Hiram Bingham III, in 1909. Many believed that the ruins had once been Vilcabamba, the legendary lost city of the ...

The Incas were masters of their harsh climate, ... Mountainous regions around the world have a history of terracing. Kendall spoke at a terracing conference in southern China in 2010.

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

And we know that the Incas played with their histories, that each of the different royal kin groups in Cuzco had its own version of Inca history, and they were competing with one another.