The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains to ...
1. Genre and Context in Inca Historical Narratives -- 2. Structuring Remembered History -- 3. Making History Visible -- 4. Huayna Capac's History -- 5. Huayna Capac's Royal Estate -- 6. The ...
In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...
pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...
Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu—an elaborate system of ...
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile's occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...
Professor Hiram Bingham, the Yale archaeologist who conducted the recent successful Peruvian expedition, lectured in New Lecture Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological ...