Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

Children sacrificed to the gods by the Incas could have come from different parts of the empire, according to researchers.

Their status was supposed to facilitate persuading the gods to make specific decisions," Socha is quoted as saying. Child sacrifice in the Incan Empire was performed as part of the capacocha ritual.

According to Steven Roland Gullberg, author of the journal The Cosmology of Inca huacas published by James Cook University, solar worship was the official religion of the Inca empire and one that ...

The first tells of how Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, the children of the Sun God, came to found the Inca Empire in Cusco valley after traveling over 500 kilometers (311 miles) from Lake Titicaca.

The Inca Empire has a population of 10 million people and a land area of over 900,000 square kilometers, once used to be the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere. He had a centralized ...

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...

The ancient Incan Empire once ruled much of the Andes and despite being defeated by the Spanish it has left historical and cultural legacies in the region.