Before the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Inca were an expansive culture known ... Estimated to be about 5,000 years old, the temple walls are made from smashed mud, archaeologists said.

After defeating the forces of Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, in 1533 ... what was once the north atrium of Pachacamac’s Painted Temple. The pyramidal Painted Temple is believed to have ...