Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

Peru’s history has been turbulent since the time of the conquistadores, the Spanish soldiers who subdued the Inca empire. From the late 16th century, when Peru was the center of the Inquisition ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not necessarily Peru. They use the same territory, but ...

Question: Did the Incas trade outside Peru by land or sea? ~Mabel Answer: One of the things that made the Inca empire so powerful and so great was the fact that the Incas had a genius for ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother, Huáscar, for control of the empire, was captured at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Paul Becerra is among the many visitors who have been captivated by the stunning reproduction of artifacts from Southwest ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...