📜 The Inca Empire: Andean Apocalypse - Disease--likely, smallpox or measles--had arrived in the Inca empire, and it was ruthless. Two of the (now dead) Emperor Huayna Capac's sons, Atahualpa ...

first came to Maukallacta in the early 1980s to uncover the origins of the Inca Empire. At the time most historians and archaeologists believed that a brilliant, young Andean Alexander the Great ...

"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 ...

The golden llama figure here presented dates from the Inca Empire, and was probably part of a burial. During the last five centuries several functions of the llama, and the other Andean camelids ...

Andean populations created these characteristic ... Public officials and regional or local lords were paid for their services to the empire in precious metals, fine textiles, and baskets of ...