Hiram Bingham, a professor of South American history at Yale University, was visiting Peru as part of the Yale Peruvian Expedition. Fascinated with the idea of exploring Inca cities, Bingham set ...

Women waiting for a lift at Abra Málaga wear clothing that reflects their country’s history. Their shawls follow an Inca tradition, but their upturned hats and full skirts were inspired by the ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

His acclaimed work, La Florida del Inca (1605), vividly chronicles Hernando de Soto’s expedition and is regarded as one of the earliest classics of American history and literature. On the ...

This is shown in his summit work as “Real Commentaries of the Inca”, which describes Inca history under his experiences, studies and memory. The book, which was banned after the Túpac Amaru ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...