The ancient rulers of the region ... "The conquest of the Titicaca Basin was the jewel in the crown of the Inca Empire," says Charles Stanish, an archaeologist at the University of California ...
confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. This newly uncovered marvel, called a chincana, offers fresh insights into the ...
After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of ...
"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...
On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins ... in Andean civilization at the ...