Peru was originally home to the Inca Empire, which expanded across much of western South America. After the Spanish conquest ...

The Inca Empire rose around 1200 C.E., and over the next 300 years, its leaders continually expanded its bounds. By the 16th ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

Deep in the Andes, atop the frozen summit of Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile, archaeologists once ...

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Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in the Cañete mountains and a trail network used during the final stage of the Inca empire, photos show. Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Atop some ...

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...

Dr Jago Cooper reassesses the achievements of the Inca Empire. He begins in Peru, where new evidence challenges preconceptions about its origins and significance. Dr Jago Cooper travels from Peru to ...

The snake on this Wari vessel (800-1000 AD) represented a sacred animal symbolically linked with water and fertility. Ernest Amoroso, NMAI/SI A belt (ca. 1450) made from the shell of a mollusk ...

NMAI copy 39088010075216 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Library of DAVID GUILLET. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...