Did you know that Machu Picchu was once home to around 750 people? It was constructed between 1438 and 1470 by Emperor Pachacutec. This historic site is rich in culture, attracting both scholars and ...

There are many sites, however, where the stone abutments which once held Inca bridges remain in place. I would say those sites probably number up to 100. Question: I think the stonemasons used mud ...

Garcilaso de la Vega, who was of Spanish-Inca parentage, wrote: “[The Inca] place it before gold and silver and precious stones.” Because of its high value, coca was largely consumed by the ...

Set in the Andes Mountains, the site was once an estate for the Inca emperor, as well as a place of worship and education. When the Spanish conquered Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned, and the ...

The Inca look less like noble victims and more like ... question of why all this was erased from history in the first place. We did not have space to delve into this in detail, but it is ...

But most religious activity took place in the plazas where there were lots of people and where the greatest aspect of ritual ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.

A golden sun and immortal bird ornament, along with a massive bronze mask and altar from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha ruins in ...