Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

Peru, a land of timeless beauty and rich history, offers an extraordinary journey through the heart of the Inca Empire and ...

The Inca Empire may be the only advanced civilization in history to have no class of traders, and no commerce of any kind within its boundaries. How did they do it?

New temple discovery shows how Tiwanaku connected sacred rituals with Andean trade and political networks. Along the southern ...

Peru draws tourists eager to explore the remnants of South America’s ancient civilisations. There’s much to uncover in this ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

Since the Inca Empire spoke other languages, including today the Aymara, Chachapoya (or Puquina) and Mochica, it’s clear that the Inca were never just one heterogenous culture. Since it was mostly a ...

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By 1532, when Pizarro invaded, the Inca Empire stretched from what is now southern Colombia all the way to central Chile. The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler.

The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred spaces, with the northeast area used for ceremonies. ART: JON FOSTER.

The growth of the Inca Empire was meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," arose sometime in ...