Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by ... when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders.

"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 ...

And on the frontiers of the lost empire, they are piecing together dramatic evidence of the wars Inca kings fought and the psychological battles they waged to forge dozens of fractious ethnic ...

We lost a war – not only a football match ... considered the source of energy for those animals. During the Inca Empire the ritual killing of this animal was an important part of the major ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

"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 ...

We lost a war – not only a football match ... considered the source of energy for those animals. During the Inca Empire the ritual killing of this animal was an important part of the major ...