In return, rulers paid their laborers in clothing and food. Silver and gold were abundant, but only used for aesthetics. Inca kings and nobles amassed stupendous riches which accompanied them ...

“The Inca built the trails in very high places ... It’s the most monumental road left in existence, and has the kind of aesthetic value needed to develop tourism. “This is the greatest ...

The Inca were better urban drainage engineers than ... The beautiful curves are a masterpiece of environmental and aesthetic design. All of the fountains, all the way down to 16, were established ...

Although the Inca had no written language ... In particular, Ruth says, “their use of water was magnificent.” This is true on a purely aesthetic level, with Machu Picchu’s 16 fountains adding a ...

In 2018, researchers in the United States discovered titanium white in 400-plus-year-old ceremonial wooden drinking cups made by the Inca and residing today in various museums. Carved with ...

The world's gay community and the ancient South American Inca people have a common source of pride - the rainbow flag. The flags are virtually identical - the Inca one has an additional blue stripe - ...

One of history's greatest engineering feats is one you rarely hear of. It's the Inca Road, parts of which still exist today across much of South America. Fortunately, I have Peruvian archaeologist ...

The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled Tuesday. The silicone-made bust portrays a ...

LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling ...