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 ...

Lost Empire Part 3 (back to Part 2) ... Spanish culture, religion, and language rapidly replaced Inca life and only a few traces of Inca ways remain in the native culture as it exists today.

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile.The Inca built more ...

pt. I: The ancient Andean World -- Timeline of the Incas and their ancestors -- 1. Living in the landscape -- Landscapes of the Andean area -- Plants in the Andean area -- Animals in the Andean area - ...

According to Steven Roland Gullberg, author of the journal The Cosmology of Inca huacas published by James Cook University, solar worship was the official religion of the Inca empire and one that ...

A new exhibition at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Architecture and Heritage City museum), in Paris, explores the relationship between the Incas and celestial bodies.

The Inca Empire encompassed mountains, forests, desert, and coastal plains. ... After the Conquest, the Spanish quickly imposed their own religion on the Empire.