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 ...

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 ...

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.

But the Inca, whose great era of imperial expansion ran roughly from 1438 to 1533, were also master builders, and Smithsonian-affiliated researchers are now bringing their accomplishments to light.

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Both of her feet were tucked against her legs. 6. Burial position In classic Inca burials, including the more typical Puruchuco burial seen here, the dead were placed in a crouched, sitting ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...