Peru’s history has been turbulent since the time of the conquistadores, the Spanish soldiers who subdued the Inca empire. From the late 16th century, when Peru was the center of the Inquisition ...
Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is actually several decades older than previously thought, according ...
Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C.
The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...
Peruvian authorities said Tuesday they have tightened security at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after tourists there were ...
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 ...
Question: Did the Incas trade outside Peru by land or sea? ~Mabel Answer: One of the things that made the Inca empire so powerful and so great was the fact that the Incas had a genius for ...
This city was once the capital of the Inca Empire and remains the gateway to Machu Picchu, Peru’s main tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1983. Still, Lima offers the ...
The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not necessarily Peru. They use the same territory, but ...
"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 ...
Terraces in the archaeological site of Pisac, near Cusco, Peru. Andean populations ... consumed by the imperial Inca elites. During the last days of the Inca Empire, a relaxation of restrictions ...
The Inca Empire encompassed mountains ... In a two part series, Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires ...