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Inca Textile and Clothing
Ancient Andean weaving developed by pre-Inca civilizations and inherited and perfected by the Incas is considered as one of the greatest textile in the world and is compared to finest textile developed...
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Inca Pottery
The best example of pottery produced before the days of the Inca Empire is found in the ceramic produced by the Moche or Mochica culture that thrived from 100 to 700 AD in the northern Peruvian coast....
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Inca Jewelry
Most of the Inca gold jewelry and artifacts was looted by the Spanish conquerors, melted and taken away to Spain. The largest part of the pieces shown in museums have been found by archeologist in...
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Inca Architecture
It is commonly questioned as to how the Incas were able to develop such an exquisite architecture without the use of the wheel and modern tools. Their buildings have withstood five centuries in an...
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Who were the Incas? Where did the Incas come from?
The Inca Civilization The Incas were a civilization in South America formed by ethnic Quechua people also known as Amerindians. In 1400AD they were a small highland tribe, one hundred years later in...
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Who were the Incas? The Incas were an ancient people who in the 16th century controlled the greatest empire in the Americas. Where did the Incas come from? The remote ancestors of the Incas were Stone...
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Inca Law
According to chronicler Garcilazo de la Vega the Incas imposed a set of three laws on its citizens: “Ama Sua. Ama Llulla. Ama Quella” or “Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not be lazy”. Inca law was based...
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Andean Music, the Music of the Incas
Andean communities have a powerful musical tradition inherited from the Inca Empire. The Inca society was based on collective effort and their success outweighed the individual’s. This is the case of...
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Culture of Peru
Peru’s culture is a set of beliefs, customs and way of life inherited from the native Incas and Spanish conquistadors and settlers. Immigrant groups such as Africans, Japanese, Chinese and Europeans...
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Inca Food
Food consumed by the inhabitants of the Inca Empire varied depending on where in the vast territory they lived. People living near the coast based their diet on fresh seafood and fruits and in the...
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Achievements of the Incas
. System of roads and bridges The Incas were magnificent engineers. They built a system of roads and bridges across the roughest terrains of the Andes. Through their system of collective labor and the...
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Inca religion, a religion of many gods
Inca religion was one of the main concerns of the Spanish Conquerors since their arrival to the new world, understanding it was vital to successfully convert the population into Catholicism. However,...
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Cusco, the City of the Puma
The name Cusco comes from the Aymara language qusqu wanka that means “rock of the owl”. According to one the myths of the origin of the Incas, the myth of the Ayar brothers, Ayar Auca became an owl and...
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Inca Art Forms
Inca art was practical. The Incas were an artistic people who used materials available to them in nature and blended them creating many artistic forms in utilitarian ways. Much of their artistic...
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Inca Pottery
Moche sculptural bottles representing cormorants. Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco. During the Inca Empire the production of pottery in the Andes was an art already developed in the region for...
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Inca Jewelry
Most of the Inca gold jewelry and artifacts was looted by the Spanish conquerors, melted and taken away to Spain. The largest part of the pieces shown in museums have been found by archaeologist in...
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Inca Architecture
It is commonly questioned as to how the Incas were able to develop such an exquisite architecture without the use of the wheel and modern tools. Their buildings have withstood five centuries in an...
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