Though the colonizers’ appreciation for the textiles of the Inca Empire left much to be desired ... to attest to how the Inca mastered this art, perhaps some conclusions can be drawn from ...

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 ...

"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 ...