He was possibly using a hammer, Andina reported, and hit the stone at least seven times, making six visible impacts and ...

Archaeologists believe the Incan citadel was built in the 1420s ... a ruler who greatly expanded the reach of the Inca Empire before its fall in 1572. The 32,592-hectare complex encompasses ...

"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 ...

To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines. Often these were inanimate objects like rocks and streams. But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks ...

After a child was chosen or offered to the emperor, a procession would begin from the child's home village to Cuzco, the crown seat of the Inca empire. Priests, family members, and chiefs would ...