Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

From the seat of government in Cusco, the Inca managed a vast territory stretching over 770,000 square miles. Controlling ...

The abandoned city of Machu Picchu is one legacy of the Spanish conquest of the Incas. Traces of air pollution in a Peruvian ice cap are another. Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the ...

"The Incas were simply too powerful to be resisted ... level or by commanding the labor of a large set of people through conquest, really made an individual or polity wealthy.

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

The Inca Empire was a vast empire that flourished in the Andean region of South America from the early 15th century A.D. up until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Even after the conquest ...

the mestizo of Hispanic-Inca descent became one of the greatest references in describing the reality experienced by our ancestors in the struggle caused by the Spanish conquest. His historical ...

This includes after the 16th century conquest of the Inca and notwithstanding the suppressed 18th century Túpac Amaru II rebellion. Politicians and institutions sometimes used the glories of the past ...

Montero, then living in Florence, used the corpse of an Andean man as a model for the dead Atahualpa in his painting, which serves to underscore widespread historical fascination with the decline of ...

Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the Spanish in South America in the late 16th century heralded the destruction of the once mighty Inca empire—and triggered a surge in air pollution ...