Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's ...

Part 2/4. At their most powerful, the Inca had the largest empire in the world. Lasting just one century from the mid-15th ...

The exhibition, titled Light of the Sun: A Dialogue Between Ancient Shu and Inca Civilizations, features 16 replicas and 3D-printed imitations of representative artifacts from the Sanxingdui ...

Khipus were particularly important to the Inca Empire, which lasted from around 1438 C.E. until 1532 C.E. when the Spanish ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

"The riches that were gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, as capital and court of the Empire, were incredible," says an early account of Inca culture written 300 years ago by Jesuit priest Father ...

and they were very interested in the mystery of the Inca civilization's disappearance, said Qi. They also were impressed by the vibrant colors of the artifacts. On July 25, when Peruvian President ...