Inca god Viracocha

Francisco Pizarro

Manco Capac
first king of the Kingdom of Cusco

A detail of a Inca stone work at Cuzco

• Ancient Civilizations - Inca Great research site for kids
  
  
• Ancient Inca Civilization -- www.kidskonnect.com
  
  
• Ancient Peru's ritual beer binges -- Americas (07/31/04)
  
  
• Ancient War Revealed in Discovery of Incan Fortresses-- LiveScience (31 May 2011)
  
  • Album: Digging Up Incan Fortresses -- LiveScience (31 May 2011)
    
    
• Atahualpa -- Inca emperor kidnapped by the Spaniards
  
  
• In Pictures: Celebrating Machu Picchu's rediscovery -- BBC News (07 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimu
  
  
  • The pre-Incan Chimu had more gold than the Mochica
    
    
• Clues to Child Sacrifices Found in Inca Building -- Discovery News (23 September 2010)
  
  
• Conquest of Peru, Prescott, 1847 Full text, free to read and search
  
  
• Conquistadors
  
  
• Conquistadors (Cortés, Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca) -- PBS
  
  
• Cuzco (Peru)
  
  
• Dozens of [Chotuna Huaca] Girls Found Sacrificed -- National Geographic News (14 July 2009)
  
  
• The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- University of Calgary
  
  
• Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well -- ScienceDaily (2008-12-03)
  
  
• Ew! Bad Teeth Reveal What Ancients Ate -- MSNBC (11 December 2008)
  
  
• First Andes civilisation explored -- Science/Nature (12/22/04)
  
  
• Food
  • Culinary History of Peru -- Cultural Expeditions

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• High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive -- New York Times (16 August 2010)
  
  
• History of the Incas, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa -- manybooks.net
  
  
• History of the Inca Empire Inca history, society and religion
  
  
• Ice Maiden 'Fattened Up for Sacrifice' -- Telegraph (02 October 2007)
  
  
• "Ice Treasures of the Inca" from the National Geographic site
  
  
• Inca Artifacts, Peru, and Machu Picchu 360 degree movies of inca artifacts and Peruvian landscapes
  
  
• Inca civilization and other ancient civilizations by Genry Joil
  
  
• Inca Cuisine -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, Bingham, Hiram (1912-1922) -- The Internet Archive
  
  
  • Inca Land by Hiram Bingham (published 1912–1922 CE)
    
    
• Inca stone cutting techniques: theory on how the Inca walls fit so perfectly
  
  
• Incan Ice Mummies NOVA site based on their series about the 1996 expedition that discovered Incan ice mummies
  
  
• Incan Religion
  
  
• Incan Sacrifice Victims Found -- LiveScience (05 June 2009)
  
  
• The Incas -- BBC
  
  
• Inca success in Peruvian Andes 'thanks to llama dung' -- BBC News (21 May 2011)
  
  
• Inca Takeovers Not Usually Hostile -- Science News (06 October 2011)
  
  
• Looters Strip Latin America of Archaeological Heritage -- Guardian (21 March 2011)
  
  
• Lords of the Earth -- Maya/Aztec/Inca Center
  
  
• Machu Picchu (Peru; Inca)
  
  
  • intewahutana
    
    
    • "hitching post of the sun"
      
      
    • used to calculate the equinoxes and other things
      
      
• Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape? -- National Geographic News (15 June 2009)
  
  
• Maize May Have Fueled Ancient Andean Civilization [Wari]: Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop led to the rise of an early state society -- Science News (08 July 2009)
  
  
• Manco, the Peruvian Chief, W.H.G. Kingston (1814-1880) -- The Internet Archive

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• Maps
  • Aztec - Inca Map, c. A.D. 1500

• Perfect' mummies found high in Andes -- Science/Nature (04/08/99)
  
  
• Peru Archaeologists Find Pre-Inca Sacrificed Babies [Kolla culture] -- BBC News (20 November 2011)
  
  
• Peru's precious heritage under threat -- Science/Nature (03/25/04)
  
  
• Pre-Columbian Societies Knew a Thing About Extracting Gold -- Science (20 October 2009)
  
  
• Pre-Incan Female Wari Mummy Unearthed in Peru -- Reuters (26 August 2008)
  
  
• Quechua (Kechua) languages = Inca language
  
  
• Rare Mass Tombs Discovered Near Machu Picchu -- National Geographic News (15 September 2008)
  
  
• Salta Museum (in Spanish)
  
  
• Scientists Uncover Inca Children's Countdown to Sacrifice -- EurekAlert (01 October 2007)
  
  
• Sites
  • Cuzco -- EMuseum
  • Machu Picchu -- EMuseum
    
    
• Tattooed mummy discovered in Peru -- Americas (05/16/06)
  
  
• Timelines

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• Vicos: A Virtual Tour -- The Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Cornell University Library
  
  
• Videos
  
  
  • 1,300-Year-Old Peru Mummy Found -- National Geographic News (27 August 2008)
  • The Sweat of the Sun (52 min., 1975, VC 169)
  • Inca Mummies: Secrets of the Lost World -- snagfilms.com
    
    
• What Was Machu Picchu For? Top Five Theories Explained -- National Geographic News (21 July 2011)
  
  
• Wikipedia
  • Peruvian Ancient Cultures
  • Cultural periods of Peru
  • History of Peru
  • War of the two brothers
  • Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
  • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
  • Smallpox Epidemics in the New World
  • Population history of Amerindians
  • Spanish Empire
  • Inca cuisine
  • Tumi
  • Amazonas before the Inca Empire
  • Inca mythology
  • Cusco
    
    
• Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru -- Science (14 February 2011)
  

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