Introduction / Serge Lemaitre -- Camelid wools: an unsuspected diversity / Elise Dufour and Nicolas Goepfert -- Fibres and dye used in textiles from the Andes / Beatriz Devia Castillo -- Feathers and ...

The Inca Empire in Peru was an expansive and complex civilization that thrived in the pre-Columbian era between about 1400 and 1530. At the time of the Spanish conquistador’s arrival (Pizarro landed ...

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

The ancient Inca were a textile society and thus skilled in working with natural fibers including alpaca and cotton. Still, it might surprise people today that their solution to crossing the canyons ...

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Centered in Peru, it stretched across the Andes’ mountain tops and down to the shoreline, ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence on ...

This photo taken on Jan. 9, 2024 shows an exhibition on the Inca civilization at the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Zhang Yan/Xinhua) An exhibition on the ...