"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 ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife ... An illustration shows the tunnel's location near the fortress. Association of Archaeologists of Peru At ...

Archeologists Put an End to a Centuries-Old Rumor, Confirm the Existence of Underground Tunnel System Beneath Cusco ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...