But military victory was only the first step in the Inca's grand strategy of empire building. Officials next set about establishing civil control. Women waiting for a lift at Abra Málaga wear ...

the Inca mastered numerous building techniques, particularly stone masonry, to construct and manage a thriving empire that covered some of the most varied landscapes in the world. Over a period of ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world.

The Capac Ñan integrated the empire, but also diversified it ... It had the five features of typical Inca road-building, he pointed out: “Walls of containment and retention.

Built in the 15th century under the reign of the Inca emperor Pachacuti, this city was a testament to the empire's power and ... This semi-circular building was dedicated to Inti, the Inca sun ...

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...

It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world.

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

It's the sound that around five hundred years ago accompanied the building of an empire, the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world.