The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ways. They weave brilliantly colored cloth, speak the traditional language of the ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua ... around the time Spanish conquistadors invaded the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu's virtually untouched state upon its rediscovery in the early 20th century ...

to rehash old, well-known stories in an attempt to make them entertaining all over again. It sometimes seems that TV lives in a world of endlessly recycled cliché. "The Great Inca Rebellion" was ...

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...

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 ...

The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...