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 ...

Discovering Machu Picchu's secrets. Once you reach Machu Picchu, take your time to explore its many corners. The iconic Intihuatana stone, believed to be an ancient sundial, and t ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world. Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km ...

You wouldn’t, I hope, describe me and my husband, Adrian, as a lazy couple. We’ve always been busy with work and the general ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

"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 ...

Question: How many suspension bridges are there in the present day Inca empire? ~Connor Answer: I'm not entirely sure what the numerical answer to this is, but it is a very small number ...

The discovery of an Inca mummy on the Quehuar Volcano, located in the Salta region of Argentina in 1975, was a significant ...

A rundown of what to eat and drink in Peru, as well as what do and the best hotels in Lima, Cusco, Sacred Valley, and Paracas ...

Peru is celebrating two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a rodent whose meat has ...

Find out which popular holiday hotspots around the globe are straining under the influx of tourists and incurring the wrath ...