Inca Empire: Did you mean...?

Extraordinarily well-preserved murals, dating from pre-Inca times, depicting stylised marine scenes. The photo was taken by Hilary Bradt and used with permission. Date of photo unknown.

▶ SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc Full Documentaries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday! ▶ Documentary "The Forerunners of the Inca" http://pdoc.es/ForeIncas We traveled to the Bolivian altiplano plateau for the first pre-Inca cultures...

This week, we visit the Dallas Museum of Art and our interviewer, Aimee Cardoso, speaks with The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas, Kimberly Jones, about the exhibition, Inca: Conquests of the Andes/Los...

Tests on three mummies found in Argentina have shed new light on the Inca practice of child sacrifice. Scientists have revealed that drugs and alcohol played a key part in the months and weeks leading up to the children's deaths.

Discover the ancient, colonial, and contemporary wonders of Peru and Machu Picchu on a Lindblad-National Geographic expedition. Spend a week exploring Lima, Cusco, the Sacred Valley of the Inca, with the expedition culminating at Machu Picchu...

Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization. The term is difficult to define...

The staggering quantity of gold the conquistadors extracted from the Americas allowed Spain to become the richest country in the world. The thirst for gold to pay for armies and gain personal enrichment resulted in waves of expeditions of...

An empire is a political construct in which one state dominates over another state, or a series of states. At its heart, an empire is ruled by an emperor, even though many states in history without an emperor at their head are called "empires"...

Tiwanaku (or Tiahuanaco) was the capital of the Tiwanaku empire between c. 200 - 1000 CE and is situated in the Titicaca basin. At an altitude of 3,850 metres (12,600 ft) it was the highest city in the ancient world and had a peak population...

Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru and who strove to protect the basic rights of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire...