The last map of the Inca Road, considered the base map until now, was completed more than three decades ago, in 1984. It shows the road run­ning for 14,378 miles.

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and was the largest state in the world in the 1400s. Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes ...

The importance of guano birds to the Inca Empire and the first conservation measures implemented by humans, Ibis, published online on 18 August 2020 ahead of print | doi:10.1111/ibi.12867 ...

To test if the Inca road, the Incas’ main thoroughfare, has boosted modern living standards, the authors split the map into small squares. For four indicators of welfare—wages, nutrition ...

The Inca Empire is thought to have originated at the city of Cuzco in what is modern-day southern Peru. In some mythical tales, the Inca was created by the sun god, Inti who sent his son, Manco ...

By 1532, when Pizarro invaded, the Inca Empire stretched from what is now southern Colombia all the way to central Chile. The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler.

Strictly speaking, the name "Inca" refers to the first royal family and the 40,000 descendants who ruled the empire. However, for centuries historians have used the term in reference to the nearly ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

It produced grand achievements, such as the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu, and vastly improved the continental Inca Road system. But the Inca Empire wasn’t around for that long compared to some of ...

T he heaps of khipus emerged from garbage bags in the back of the tiny, one-room museum—clumps of tangled ropes the size of beach balls. Sabine Hyland smiled as she gazed down at them and said ...