The Incas began conquering nearby kingdoms in the mid-1400s, and in less than a century they had subdued a population of 12 million.The nearly 25,000 miles of roads they built, many through ...

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 ...

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.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Rich in foodstuffs, textiles, gold, and coca, the Inca were masters of city building but ...

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and ...

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 ...

Why Maps Are Civilization’s Greatest Tool. Eight maps, from antiquity to today, ... Visit Machu Picchu via Google Earth and hike the Inca Trail with Street View.