Cuzco, I decided, had to be the gayest city in South America. Everywhere I turned were rainbow flags. They fluttered in front of banks, in hotel lobbies, in restaurants, atop government buildings ...

The invasion had driven his father to a military outpost. Subsequently, Pachacuti worked to expand the territory the Inca controlled, extending their influence beyond the Cuzco region.

A. B. Daniel, , trans. from the French by Alex Gilly. . Simon & Schuster, $14 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-3275-7 Daniel—the pseudonym of French novelists Antonie Audouard and Jean-Daniel Baltassat ...

Cuzco, which emerged as the richest city in the New World, was the center of Inca life, the home of its leaders.

Farming Like the Incas The Incas were masters of their harsh climate, archaeologists are finding—and the ancient civilization has a lot to teach us today ...

The greatest of the Inca Road’s thoroughfares, it once ran from Cuzco to present-day Quito, Ecuador, and then kept going to what is now Pasto, Colombia.

In 1536, Spaniards drove the Incas from Cuzco, sending rebel chieftain Manco Capac and thousands of his soldiers fleeing northeastward toward Machu Picchu into the vast wilderness of Vilcabamba.

Could Cusco, Peru, hold the key to a forgotten chapter of human civilization? Long before the Inca, this city was home to megalithic marvels that defy explanation. Uncover the secrets of its jaw ...

City of Cuzco Situated in the Peruvian Andes, Cuzco developed, under the Inca ruler Pachacutec, into a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions. It was surrounded by ...