Experts have shed new light on how the Inca civilization used “trophy heads” to maintain control over conquered peoples. At its height in the 16th century, the Inca Empire spanned modern-day Peru, as ...
The legend of Pachacamac will not soon die. Since the 16th century, Spanish chroniclers have said that Hernando Pizarro had destroyed the idol of the deity when he conquered the Inca Empire in the ...
The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...
insider.si.edu: The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire / Peter O. Koch
A fire that burns deep -- In search of Birú -- A second chance -- A test of will -- Inca heritage -- The empire of the sun -- Return of the prodigal son -- The third voyage -- Civil war -- Pizarro's ...
"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 and ...
Smithsonian Magazine: Servants at Machu Picchu Came From Distant Corners of the Inca Empire
The Inca city in Peru is one of the most recognizable historical sites in the world. Built in the mid-15th century, it served as a royal estate for the rulers of the Inca Empire before the arrival of ...
Servants at Machu Picchu Came From Distant Corners of the Inca Empire
KPBS: A lock of hair may have just changed what we know about life in the Incan Empire