After a child was chosen or offered to the emperor, a procession would begin from the child's home village to Cuzco, the crown seat of the Inca empire. Priests, family members, and chiefs would ...

Three years later, in 2019, they unearthed another Inca toddler afflicted with smallpox. The Spanish built the cemetery between 1535 and 1540. It features 120 burials from the early days of their ...

the Inca capital. This, in addition to the fact that the clothing she was wearing resembles the finest textiles from that great city, suggests she may have come from a noble Cuzco family.

We’ve always been busy with work and the general mayhem of family life, and we have two ... Visiting Peru – and specifically walking the Inca Trail – had been a vague aspiration of mine ...

Inca mastery of landscape and environment is epitomised at Machu Picchu, their most famous ruin. Many archaeologists believe Machu Picchu was a summer retreat for the emperor and his family.