confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. This newly uncovered marvel, called a chincana, offers fresh insights into the ...

To bring grandeur to his new capital in Ecuador ... The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred spaces, with the northeast ...

They established their capital of Cusco in the 12th century ... In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife—fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers.

"The riches that were gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, as capital and court of the Empire, were incredible," says an early account of Inca culture written 300 years ago by Jesuit priest Father ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

The Capacocha sacrifices began in the Inca capital of Cusco and were preceded ... of kilometers of roads that connected the entire Empire, and at certain intervals there were tambos.

Peru Ministry of Culture Cusco is a city in the south of Peru, seated in the Sacred Valley of the Andes, and was once the capital of the Inca Empire. Google Translate was used to translate the ...