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 ...

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 ...

T he Inca Empire once stretched 2,500 miles along the Andes of western South America. At its height, it was one of the largest empires in the world and, in geographic terms, the most extensive ...

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 ...

Machu Picchu was neither the capital of the Inca empire nor the main destination ... gazing down on the ruins that now define South America. From about a mile away, the connection between road ...

Consumption of coca dates back to the very earliest of ancient South American societies ... as the ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival ...

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.

"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 ...

"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 ...