Sitting at 11,152 feet up in the Andes Mountains is Cusco, the former capital of the Inca empire. The city is one of the ...

Lima, Peru, is a massive city with over 11 million people. It is world-renowned for its cuisine, museums, and art. However, ...

Cuzco, also spelled Cusco and named after the Quechua word for “naval or “center,” was built between the 11th and 12th centuries and became the capital of the Inca empire, according to ...

So what was this place, occupied by the Incan Empire, from about the early 1400s ... other and falling off the mountain. This style of Inca planning and engineering is not unique to Machu Picchu ...

France had two bites of the cherry when it came to empire-building. Its North American possessions had ... including those of the Aztec and Inca civilisations, while European diseases battered their ...

On Toompea Hill, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral stands as a richly decorated icon of Estonia's Russian Empire era. Its lavish domes and ... Elmina Castle is one – it is the oldest European building in ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife—fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers. The Inca left no written records of their underground ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

Cusco, once the administrative, political, and military capital of the powerful Inca Empire in the 15th century before being conquered by the Spanish, holds significant historical importance.