apart from flattering histories that Inca nobles told soon after the arrival of Spanish conquistadores. The Inca had no system of hieroglyphic writing, as the Maya did, and any portraits that Inca ...
Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca—achieved with guns, steel, and horses—is being replaced by a more complete story based on surprising new evidence ...
Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km) down the Andes, and ruled over 12 million people from the Pacific Coast to the Amazonian jungle. In 1532 the Spanish would ...
Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates mountain range between the Andes and the Amazon is said to exist a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from Spanish conquistadors. The legend begins in the ...
But they were impressed – the thing that impressed the most the Spanish people were the Inca roads. And Cieza de Leon, a Spanish writer of that period, he said that there was nothing comparable ...
Some archaeologists believe that the Inca mummified all their dead, not just the elite. When the Spanish conquered the Inca in the 1500's and 1600's, they forbade the practice of mummification ...
The Spanish conquest and the clash of world views which would evenutally destroy the Inca.
In the millennia following the arrival of the first human settlers ... in the imperial capital of Cusco. Following the ...
Begin in Cusco, the historic heartland and former capital of the Inca Empire. Spend time exploring the museums, archaeological remains and beautiful Spanish architecture. From here, travel through ...
The most unusual manual counting device may well be the quipus used by various Andean communities in South America prior to the arrival of the Spanish and ... spanning Inca Empire and its ...