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 ...

"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 ...

As the Ming Dynasty was reordering China, and the Ottomans conquering eastern Europe, the Inca were constructing their vast empire, spreading from their heartland in southern Peru to a territory ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... The Inca are not necessarily Peru. They use the same territory, but I don’t necessarily feel that there is a connection with all Peruvians.

As the Ming Dynasty was reordering China, and the Ottomans conquering eastern Europe, the Inca were constructing their vast empire, spreading from their heartland in southern Peru to a territory ...

A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction ... gradually taking over neighboring territory and conquering or integrating other cultures in the region.

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...

There is evidence it was consumed in cultures located in modern-day Ecuador from as early as the ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival of the ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... The Inca are not necessarily Peru. They use the same territory, but I don’t necessarily feel that there is a connection with all Peruvians.