And remake the world they did. Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the ...

By the time of the Inca civilization ... archaeologists did manage to uncover a huge burial site at Ancón on the Peruvian coast. Hundreds of shafts, some eighteen to twenty feet deep, led ...

These high mountain sanctuaries dot the Andes from central Chile to southern Peru. All of the sites are located in the region of the two southernmost Inca quarters, or "suyus," but only a few of ...