This ceremony, held every August before planting season, drew people from the four corners of the empire. The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River ...

A stunning archaeological discovery has recently been made in the Caral region of Peru, where a 5,000-year-old mummy was ...

Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km) down the Andes, and ruled over 12 million people from the Pacific Coast to the Amazonian jungle. In 1532 the Spanish would ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

At the height of the Inca Empire, it integrated nearly ten million people from a hundred nations. Today, much of the 24,000-mile network is still used by South America’s indigenous peoples.

The people that were in the Inca empire under the rule of the Incas did not pay taxes in the way we do in the form of money. Instead they paid in the form of their time. And at some period of the ...

The people called it coca ... day Ecuador from as early as the ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival of the Spanish, that coca attained ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...