Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

Peru is a country with a rich, deep-rooted history that stretches back thousands of years. It is home to one of the oldest ...

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 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 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.

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 ...

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.