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 ...

We really aren't sure whether the rocks we see in the quarries that show this pattern date from the Inca period or perhaps from the period shortly after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Peru's capital Lima, more than ...

Now a popular tourist destination and jumping-off point for treks to Machu Picchu, Cusco was the capital of the powerful Inca ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Spanish conquest and the clash of world views which would evenutally destroy the Inca.