By the time of the Inca civilization, which lasted from approximately 1100 to 1500 A.D., the Andean tradition of preserving the dead was still intact. Most Inca mummies were arranged in the ...

However, it was abandoned just 100 years later for reasons unknown. The Inca had no written language, so they left no record of why they built the site or how they used it. Spread over 32,592 ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built ... Archaeologists believe the Incan citadel was built in the 1420s and abandoned sometime in ...