This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

It was the llama that unified these three disparate Inca worlds, and held this vast empire together. This was a world of different peoples, languages and gods, whose communities had often been at ...

It was the llama that unified these three disparate Inca worlds, and held this vast empire together. This was a world of different peoples, languages and gods, whose communities had often been at ...

Most scholars agree that the purpose of the sacrifice, known as "capacocha," was to appease the mountain gods and to assure rain, abundant crops, protection, and order for the Inca people.

The sacrificed child was thought of as a deity, ensuring a tie between the chief and the Inca emperor, who was considered a descendant of the Sun god ... Here, llamas (which carried up 80-pound ...

A beloved llama that lived in the Sequoia Park Zoo has died. Inca, who was 21, had arthritis and age-related pain that was no longer able to be managed. She had to be euthanized as her condition ...

The Inca Road was built by engineers and laborers working with bronze and stone tools and llamas. At the height of the Inca Empire, it integrated nearly ten million people from a hundred nations.

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.