This ceremony, held every August before planting season, drew people from the four corners of the empire. The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

The people that were in the Inca empire under the rule of the Incas did not pay taxes in the way we do in the form of money. Instead they paid in the form of their time. And at some period of the ...

Gold was the emblem of the great Inca sun-god, and represented his generative powers. Gold was described as "sweat of the sun" just as silver was the "tears of the moon". Gold was therefore related to ...

Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km) down the Andes, and ruled over 12 million people from the Pacific Coast to the Amazonian jungle. In 1532 the Spanish would ...

At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth ... The wealth and sophistication of the legendary Inca people lured many anthropologists and archaeologists to ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

The Inca Empire once stretched 2,500 miles along the Andes of western South America. At its height, it was one of the largest ...

The burials date back to when people in Peru were constructing large ... period (circa 1800 to 900 B.C.) and predates the ...

Many of these cultural treasures are objects of veneration, indicating the practice of sun worship among the ancient Shu people. In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian ...