This video shows Machu Picchu, Peru, an ancient Inca settlement located high in the Andes Mountains above the Urubamba Valley ...

The Inca were a powerful Indigenous civilization that emerged in South America during the early 1200s and flourished until the 16th century. At their height, they were the largest empire in the ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers ...

The Inca Empire became the largest civilization in the Americas, stretching across vast and dangerous mountain terrain. Without writing or iron tools, they built an advanced system of roads, cities, ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...