This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence ...

"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 ...

At the high Andes village of Chawaytiri, Secretary G. Wayne Clough took part in the Procession of the Llama. Rob Leopold Mysteries of the Incas remain, but we continue to learn about their great ...

Cusco, located about 130 miles from Machu Picchu, was the thriving epicenter of the Inca Empire. Today, it stands as both a popular tourist destination and a treasure trove for archaeologists.

A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A legend from the Andes tells the tale of Kuka, a woman of such extraor dinary beauty that none in ...

Some of you might just recognise the plaintive moan or humming sound of a llama. It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

"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 ...