Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; ... Animals in the Andean area -- The Inca Empire at Pizarro's arrival -- Civil war: fall of the Inca ...

Peru is a country with a rich, deep-rooted history that stretches back thousands of years. It is home to one of the oldest ...

Though it is the best-known remnant of the Inca Empire today, Machu Picchu was only inhabited for roughly 100 years, built as a royal mountain retreat and abandoned in 1572.

When Maxwell L. Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, opened the institution’s most recent exhibit, “Inca: Conquests of the Andes/Los Incas y las Conquistas de los Andes,” he ...

The Inca Empire covered vast parts of South America, uniting distant cities in Chile, Peru, ... Or maybe the Band of Holes is geoglyph art, similar to the Nasca Lines, ...

Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Bill Sillar and comedian Sue Perkins to learn all about the South American Inca empire. ... food and drink, religious practices, art and architecture.

Four well-preserved llamas killed in South America more than 500 years ago hold clues to the religious and political practices of the Inca Empire, new research suggests. As Alexandra Topping ...

But the empire barely lasted for a century. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, it fell in the 1530s with the arrival of Spanish conquistadores, led by Pizarro.