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 ...

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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.

A mummy of an Inca girl, described as "perfect" by the archaeologists who found her in 1999, has gone on display for the first time in Argentina. Hundreds of people crowded into a museum in the ...

The area that is now Lima has been occupied for more than 10,000 years by pre-Inca cultures, then the Inca Empire itself and then the colonial culture brought by the Spanish conquerors in 1535.

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.