For the cook with an interest in history, a new book by Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs reveals the kind of fascinating details that would attract any student of the past. Spirit of the Earth: Native ...

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...

[Part 1] Aztec -- 1. The historical and geographical background of the Aztecs -- 2. The people -- 3. The Aztec "kings" and the directing classes -- 4. The achievements -- [Part 2] Maya -- 1. This ...

Rick and Marty Lagina dream of Aztec gold at the bottom of the ocean. Pic credit: History This week’s episode of Beyond Oak Island was one of the more fascinating as the guys joined in on the hunt for ...

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 ...

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The growth of the Inca Empire can only be described as meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," ...

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 ...

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