The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

To date archaeologists and historians have located ruins of roughly a dozen ... The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

His ancestor, Mansio Serra de Leguizamón, was a conquistador and one of the first Europeans to set foot in the Inca Empire, which once stretched from Colombia to Chile. Within a few years of 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 ...

"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 ...

the last suspended rope bridge from the Inca Empire. Located on the western edge of South America, tucked between Earth's largest rainforest (the Amazon), its driest desert (the Atacama ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

It's fascinating to be able to gaze down on the city from above and imagine how it would have looked during the height of the Inca Empire. Then, enjoy lunch at Sanctuary Lodge Hotel, located just ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... When he died, he left written directions to its location, the so-called Derrotero de Valverde.

The history of the Plaza de Armas stretches back all the way to the Inca Empire when it was called Huacaypata or Aucaypata. The massive square (originally twice its current size) was built as a ...