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.

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Discover the advanced precision tools used by the Inca civilization, challenging the notion of their being "primitive" and ...

One of the best sites offered by this place is the Mirador Cristo Rey del Valle, from which visitors can enjoy the night sky ...

His stories have left their mark, and perhaps the best known is the so-called 'Real Commentaries of the Incas', a literary historical book that had its first publication in 1609, in Lisbon ...

By Paarth Mathur ✐ While Europe's 19th-century surgeons struggled with a 50% survival rate for skull surgeries, the ancient ...

But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous ...

You see, after two years of research to pinpoint the location of the “Lost City of the Incas” and raise money for his expedition, intrepid American historian and explorer Hiram Bingham set off ...