SOURCES: BRIAN S. BAUER ... and estates began slowly falling into ruin. As the empire crumbled, the Inca and their descendants made a valiant attempt to preserve the symbols of imperial authority.

In southern Peru’s Atico River Valley, archaeologists have unearthed a large tomb filled with the battle-scarred skeletons of 24 women, men and children. Interred in various stone enclosures, the two ...

At the height of the Inca Empire, it integrated nearly ten million ... the Incas because they saw its abundant, sustaining water sources—rivers, rain and snow—as an affirmation of the ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... Blake left and never returned. Sources suggest that en route to New York, where he planned to raise ...

"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 ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

For example, historical sources stated that the Incan Emperor ... “The results suggest that the discussion of the development of the Inca Empire based primarily on colonial records needs ...

considered the source of energy for those animals. During the Inca Empire the ritual killing of this animal was an important part of the major official celebrations. The golden llama figure here ...

"A thousand years ago we were once part of the magnificent Inca Empire, which also suffered climate change. They planted millions of trees to manage the weather," says Cusco-based Aucca.

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 ...

considered the source of energy for those animals. During the Inca Empire the ritual killing of this animal was an important part of the major official celebrations. The golden llama figure here ...