Built in the 15th century under the reign of the Inca emperor Pachacuti, this city was a testament to the empire's power and ...

But military victory was only the first step in the Inca's grand strategy of empire building. Officials next set about establishing civil control. Women waiting for a lift at Abra Málaga wear ...

the Inca mastered numerous building techniques, particularly stone masonry, to construct and manage a thriving empire that ...

The Capac Ñan integrated the empire, but also diversified it ... It had the five features of typical Inca road-building, he pointed out: “Walls of containment and retention.

It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world.

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...

"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 ...

It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height; its giant walls, terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. The ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world.