The volume of all the gold in the Inca Empire would have been almost 14 times greater than all the gold then in Europe at that time. Pizarro’s plunder would have been worth more than $387 ...

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 ...

The Inca state's domain was unprecedented, its rule resulting in a universal language - a form of Quechua, a religion worshipping the sun, and a 14,000 mile-long road system criss-crossing high ...

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.

Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling empire than once dominated ...

Scholars now believe that the Incas often used these numerical records to count goods. In 2013 and 2014, for instance, archaeologists excavated an Inca storehouse and found several khipus ...

The Inca city in Peru is one of the most recognizable historical sites in the world. Built in the mid-15th century, it served as a royal estate for the rulers of the Inca Empire before the arrival ...

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.