apart from flattering histories that Inca nobles told soon after the arrival of Spanish conquistadores. The Inca had no system of hieroglyphic writing, as the Maya did, and any portraits that Inca ...

Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the 1530s and finally conquered the Incas after a 40-year struggle. The Incas had no cows, sheep, pigs, chickens or goats. Their only domesticated animals ...

When the great chiefs who had allied themselves with the Spanish realized that they were not, as they had thought, equal partners in the much-desired ousting of the Incas but had in fact colluded ...

A man chewing coca in a pre-Columbian figure Photograph by DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by the Inca, were used in religious ceremonies. Cristóbal de Molina, a Spanish priest ...

Some archaeologists believe that the Inca mummified all their dead, not just the elite. When the Spanish conquered the Inca in the 1500's and 1600's, they forbade the practice of mummification ...

Archaeologists believe the Incan citadel was built in the 1420s and abandoned sometime in the mid 1500s, around the time Spanish conquistadors invaded the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu's virtually ...

Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location ... long before the arrival of the Spanish colonisers. They may have had a greater understanding of the cosmos and the ...

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 ...

It's hard to believe this iconic "lost city of the Incas" was untouched during the Spanish conquest. The Incas cleverly obscured these 12 acres of temples, aqueducts and gardens from the Spaniards ...

Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the 1530s and finally conquered the Incas after a 40-year struggle. The Incas had no cows, sheep, pigs, chickens or goats. Their only domesticated animals ...