Walking behind the priest in a small procession, the bearers carry the saint for all in the plaza to see, just as the Inca once shouldered the mummies of their revered kings. The names of those ...

especially a chronicle from 1600 that told about the deep "cave" across the entire city of Cusco made by Inca kings. These ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother, Huáscar, for control of the empire, was captured at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco ...

An ancient anonymous text explains: "It is a very deep cave made by the Inca kings, which crosses the whole city and has its entrance at the fortress of Sacsayhuamán, and descends from the high ...

Silver and gold were abundant, but only used for aesthetics. Inca kings and nobles amassed stupendous riches which accompanied them, in death, in their tombs. But it was their great wealth that ...

Here ruled the bygone Inca kings, here yowling little Incas went ink, ink, ink; and here the dance of the Adoration of the Sun was performed, 400 years ago, much as it was last week. Gold was the ...

An example was on November 25, 1978, when King Juan Carlos traveled to Peru. There he deposited in the Cathedral of Cuzco a chest with part of the ashes of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega as a ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.

Silver and gold were abundant, but only used for aesthetics. Inca kings and nobles amassed stupendous riches which accompanied them, in death, in their tombs. But it was their great wealth that ...