NOVA Online presents Ice Mummies ...

Gaze on the hauntingly fragile Inca mummy as scientists atop Mount Ampato in Peru literally stumble onto the find of a career. ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Pedro de Cieza de Leon: Chronicles of the Incas, 1540 Another view of the Incas, from a conquistador. It provides quite a lot of information about the Incan economy--a redistributive typical of all early civilizations. It is told for a fact of the rulers of this kingdom that in the days of their rule they had their representatives in ...

A history of the first forty years of Inca-Spanish contact, from the execution of Atahuallpa to the beheading of Tupac Amaru.

An Inka accounting system that used knotted strings called quipus to record numerical data has long been known to scholars.

Machu Picchu, Ancient America ...

SOUTH AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS: THE MOCHE AND INCA A Segment of the Central & South American WWW Research Institute at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Director: Elizabeth Rozsa, RSC, Economics Major Contemporary Map of South America INTRODUCTION THE MOCHE THE INCA MACHU PICCHU THE FALL OF THE INCA INTRODUCTION When Pizarro and the Spaniards arrived in the Andes in the 16th century, they ...

History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott ...

Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1475-1541) Spanish Conqueror Spanish explorer and conqueror Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire and claimed most of South America for Spain. Pizarro also established the city of Lima, Peru, and opened the way for Spanish culture and religion to dominate South America. In doing so, Pizarro conquered the largest amount of territory of any military leader and delivered ...