Carved with elaborate geometrical designs, the cups, called qeros, traditionally were not colored. But around the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru in 1530, the Inca started mixing pigments ...

and any portraits that Inca artists may have made of their rulers were lost. The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city ...

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 ...

there are many walls on Easter Island. I haven't seen them all but I have seen two that are particularly similar to Inca walls. I think they were probably built the same way the Inca walls were built.

When the great chiefs who had allied themselves with the Spanish realized that they were not, as they had thought, equal partners in the much-desired ousting of the Incas but had in fact colluded ...

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Machu Picchu was only one of many cities, provincial supply centers and seats of government that were connected by one of the most astounding accomplishments of its time, the Inca Road.

As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his companion ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half ... to Ecuador in search of the cinchona tree, the seeds of which were used to produce the antimalarial drug quinine.

In 2016, archaeologists were conducting excavations at a 16th-century ... when they stumbled across the skeleton of an Inca toddler who seemed to have died from smallpox. Three years later ...

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 ...