A Glimpse into History Machu Picchu's history is as intriguing as its breathtaking scenery. Built in the 15th century under ...

Boys and girls were selected, often as part of an annual tribute to the Inca state. Chosen children typically came from noble families hoping to gain political favor through these rituals.

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... until word of her misdeeds reached the Great Inca’s ears. He ordered that she be sacrificed ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...

Unlike Salkantay, however, this trek combines Inca history with little interference from tourist passersby. Families, older people, and travelers who simply don't have the time can arrive in Aguas ...

The Inca look less like noble victims and more ... also raise the intriguing question of why all this was erased from history in the first place. We did not have space to delve into this in ...

His acclaimed work, La Florida del Inca (1605), vividly chronicles Hernando de Soto’s expedition and is regarded as one of the earliest classics of American history and literature. On the ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...