The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains to ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold ...

The growth of the Inca Empire can only be described as meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," ...

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...

The Inca Empire ruled millions without a written language — at least not in the sense that we typically think of one, such as an alphabet or syllabary. Instead, they used khipus — bundles of colored, ...

The emergency excavation of a 500-year-old cemetery under a Lima shantytown has produced the largest trove of Inca mummies ever discovered in Peru--a finding that already is changing established views ...

Discovering the Incas and their past -- PART ONE: HISTORY: Empire of the sun -- The land -- Sacred landscapes, sacred skies -- Early settlers to empire builders -- Themes and peoples -- Power and ...

South America’s ancient Inca rulers didn’t establish the largest empire in the New World by being sweethearts. But their reputation as warmongers, at least according to some influential 16th- and 17th ...

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

A deep exploration of Killarok (Kia Rok), the mysterious “Stones of the Moon” outside Cusco, Peru, examining an intricately carved megalithic structure that may have functioned as an ancient Inca ...