This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... until word of her misdeeds reached the Great Inca’s ears. He ordered that she be sacrificed ...

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily, socially and politically, the Inca had no script, so we are - as so often in American history - heavily dependent on the accounts of the ...

The Inca look less like noble victims and more ... also raise the intriguing question of why all this was erased from history in the first place. We did not have space to delve into this in ...

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 ...

Others may opt to reach Machu Picchu by hiking the Inca Trail, a series of ancient roads that trace their origin to the Inca Empire.

The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are ...