Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

Over 500 years ago, Peruvian Inca people fearlessly crossed mountains and valleys, building the Inca Trail that traversed the Andes from north to south,” Xi added. “Today, the Chancay port is ...

The wealth and sophistication of the legendary Inca people lured many anthropologists and archaeologists to the Andean nations in a quest to understand the Inca's advanced ways and what led to ...

In essence they were the protectors of the Inca people, the keepers of life who reached up toward the skies where the sacred condor soared. Many theories exist about why the Incas performed ritual ...