Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be ...

"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 ...

Plus, you can visit the ruins of several of them today. Learn all about these lost civilizations submerged under the sea and the reasons that caused their disappearance. When you think of the ancient ...

Long before any contact, ancient Peruvian and Chinese civilizations shared remarkable similarities. Both the Inca ...

Paul Becerra is among the many visitors who have been captivated by the stunning reproduction of artifacts from Southwest ...

While khipus were used in earlier times, they were especially important to the Inca Empire, which lasted from around 1438 CE ...

Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C.

As visitors entered the entrance hall of the exhibition, the replica of a bronze face mask from Sanxingdui resonated with a large pottery pot from the Inca empire, creating a strong atmosphere of ...