The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... which he did in his book Valverde's Gold (2004). The author teamed up with two adventurers who ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival ...

"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 ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...

Machu Picchu's history is as intriguing as its breathtaking scenery. Built in the 15th century under the reign of the Inca ...