This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 13 Amazing Facts About Machu Picchu ... the kingdom of Cusco into the vast Inca empire. For more than a century, researchers ...

"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 ...

The second part is a defense of his lineage and a historical vision of the Inca empire and the Spanish conquest. This is seen as a contradiction to what he had written in the first volume to the ...

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 ...

Its long tail provides a very different shape from that of the ground-dove, but beware of the Inca dove’s regrowing lost tail; it can be mistaken for a ground-dove, and the dark bill along with ...