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 ...

The Inca language, religion ... The perfect gift for the history buff in your life. Give now and get a FREE TOTE BAG. GIVE A GIFT Some religious rituals involved human sacrifice, and coca played ...

I make a numeric connection between two important khipus from history—the first being being the largest khipu ever known and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Inca look less like noble victims and more ... also raise the intriguing question of why all this was erased from history in the first place. We did not have space to delve into this in ...

Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca ...

Since the Inca did not leave any written records ... Experts believe only a tiny fraction of the khipus made throughout history have survived. This is partly because the institutions that used ...

The history of the Plaza de Armas stretches back all the way to the Inca Empire when it was called Huacaypata or Aucaypata. The massive square (originally twice its current size) was built as a ...

Since the Inca did not leave any written records ... Experts believe only a tiny fraction of the khipus made throughout history have survived. This is partly because the institutions that used ...