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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.