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 ...

Cusco was the capital of the powerful Inca Empire in the 15th century before it was conquered by the Spanish. Presently, it is a tourist destination and jumping-off point for treks to Machu Picchu.

"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 ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... lead to some mines located on the northern end of the Llanganate range, but not to the area as ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing ... because the role of the children did not end with the moment of their ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...