This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ...

(The National Geographic Society helped fund Bingham on excursions to Machu Picchu in 1912 and 1915.) Bingham believed he had found Vilcabamba, the so-called Lost City of the Inca where the last ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... until word of her misdeeds reached the Great Inca’s ears. He ordered that she be sacrificed ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his ... Archaeologist Johan Reinhard, an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, has an explanation for why numerous ...

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 ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... depict the bloody sacrifice of war captives, and the Inca, who vanquished the Chimú around 1470, only to be ...

That’s why Machu Picchu is “one of those places that overdelivers,” says National Geographic Traveler contributing ... it’s more than you imagined. The Inca were the end result of 5,000 ...

Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... made in Peru shows a noblewoman serving chicha to an Inca emperor, who raises it to toast the sun god, Inti.

While Machu Picchu and all-things-Inca deservedly make South America’s third largest country a bucket-list staple, there are a world of Peruvian experiences beyond the ancient that are worth ...

Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca ...