With suspension bridges and ramrod-straight roads laid out by ancient surveyors, the road functions as a kind of map of Inca ambitions ... and confused Inca empire, co-opting the elite with ...

"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 ...

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 largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... he had uncovered Valverde's guide and a related map, made by a man named Atanasio Guzman.

The expedition's efforts resulted in the discovery of an ancient Inca road that coincides with the descriptions of the historical map known as ... heritage of the Inca Empire.

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas ... and that this ancient engineering marvel will spark your sense of wonder as much as it ...

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 ...