For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

Sometime after 1400, one of the greatest Inca rulers, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui, began planning his conquest of the south. It was the dawn of empire. Massed on a high, cold Peruvian plain north of ...

whom he was able to determine were killed at one of the most famous battles of the conquest, the Siege of Lima. This battle has conventionally been portrayed as the brave rout of a vast Inca army ...

the mestizo of Hispanic-Inca descent became one of the greatest references in describing the reality experienced by our ancestors in the struggle caused by the Spanish conquest. His historical ...

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 ...

How much of a fact is that? ~ McLan Answer: The Incas were actually one of a large number of tribal groups living in Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest. All of the Indians in the Inca empire ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

This Indian representation of Inca royalty dates back to 1800. Notice their gold crowns bear the emblem of the sun. The Incas believed gold was the sweat of the sun, which they worshipped.

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Incan city that was abandoned by the Incas after the Spanish conquest. The ruins feature about 200 structures that were used for religious, agricultural ...