Cusco, Inca Empire
The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...
Archaeologists uncover secret Inca underground streets beneath Cusco, revealing a sophisticated ancient road network.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty miles north-west of Cusco, where the Andes crumple into the Amazon, lies Espíritu Pampa: the last ...
A look at the Paul Simon and Garfunkel Classic 'El Condor Pasa (If I Could)' and how the folk band Los Incas both helped make ...
Under the city of Cuzco, Peru, a secret labyrinth built by the Incas has been discovered. Irene Wright McClatchy News High in the Andes mountains of Peru, the city of Cuzco once served as the ...
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 ...
This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.
16 September 2025 - 11 days for £3,495. Immerse yourself in the Inca civilisation’s most important archaeological sites, including Machu Picchu twice as you discover how the story of the Incas ...
While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used something called quipu which encoded numeric data in strings using knots. Now the ...
But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous ...
Local cuisine plays an important role, with dishes such as roasted guinea pig, fresh trout from Andean rivers, and pachamanca ...
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