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 area used for ceremonies. ART: JON FOSTER. JEFF OSBORN ...

Though the colonizers’ appreciation for the textiles of the Inca Empire left much to be desired ... to attest to how the Inca ...

As "a unique testimony" of the Inca Civilization and "a masterpiece of art, urbanism, architecture, and engineering," Machu ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Rob Leopold Mysteries of the Incas remain, but we continue to learn about their great civilization. Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the ...

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 ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...