The Inca launched guerrilla attacks from hidden ... This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 13 Amazing Facts About Machu Picchu.

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After centuries of speculation, archaeologists in Peru have confirmed the existence of an underground tunnel network, thought to have been built by the Incas. The groundbreaking discovery was ...

The facts contain the stories he sent to Francisco ... the title General History of Peru or Royal Commentaries of the Incas, in 13 volumes) and in 1829 (in five volumes, the first and second ...

After a week of commemorating his birth (April 12), it is a good time to remember the Inca writer Garcilaso de la Vega and his iconic works, which were part of the testimony history of the ...

Its long tail provides a very different shape from that of the ground-dove, but beware of the Inca dove’s regrowing lost tail; it can be mistaken for a ground-dove, and the dark bill along with ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.