For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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 ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother, Huáscar, for control of the empire, was captured at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco ...

Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca—achieved with guns, steel, and horses—is being replaced by a more complete story based on surprising new evidence ...

It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height ... Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Ubicado a 2.430 metros de altura en un paraje de gran ...

The Inca trail linked Cusco, in modern-day Peru, to distant parts of the empire A road system built ... over hundreds of years and was used by the Spanish when they arrived in South America ...

Remarkably, a last bastion of the Inca empire remained unknown to the Spanish conquerors and was not found until explorer Hiram Bingham discovered it in 1911. He had found Machu Picchu ...