And on the frontiers of the lost empire, they are piecing ... A staple crop for the Inca, corn filled state granaries, fed laborers and soldiers, and was fermented into beer for festivals.

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... Subject people were required to provide soldiers and labourers to work on farms and in mines. Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the ...

They were also given out to soldiers at feasts to celebrate victories ... During the last days of the Inca Empire, a relaxation of restrictions on coca consumption began. Some researchers argue ...

"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 ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and ... Subject people were required to provide soldiers and labourers to work on farms and in mines. Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the ...